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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> "Martin" <dev@no.comppromed.spam.com> wrote in message
> news:462cc3e6$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
>> Using BCB 5 Pro, I'm trying to add named pipes to my app, and
>> having some problems after the first client disconnects and shutdown
>> Basically what's happening is that the server is getting error 232
>> (pipe closing), 233 (no process at other end of pipe), or 6 (invalid
>> handle) when it's trying to use the pipe created for the second
> client.
> 
> Did you call DisconnectNamedPipe() after the first client
> disconnected?  You can't reuse an existing server pipe unless you do.
> This is stated in the documentation.
> 

Yes, DisconnectNamedPipe is being called.

>> Has anyone tried getting named pipes to work in this model? How
>> necessary is it to use _beginthread instead of CreateThread?
> 
> It is not necessary at all.  I have plenty of named pipe code that
> works just fine with CreateThread().
> 

Thanks. I tried using the TThread class and that seems to work fine as 
well.  Is it possibly something specific to BCB 5 that the Borland docs 
say _beginthread is required for the runtime libraries. The backend to 
these pipes are calling a lot of routines that use Borland's versions of 
the API calls instead of calling directly to Windows API. Bypassing 
_beginthread isn't going to cause any problems will it?

Thanks,
Marty
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