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On 2024-02-18 01:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:36:46 +0100, DrPi wrote:
> 
>> My usage is a bit special. The writing process writes a bunch of data in
>> a memory buffer then requests this buffer to be transferred to another
>> process by way of WM_COPYDATA.
> 
> I thought Windows had pipes.

Yes it has, but very rarely used though much better designed than UNIX 
pipes. See


https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-createnamedpipea

In general Windows has much richer and better API regarding interprocess 
communication than Linux. After all Windows NT was sort of descendant of 
VMS, which was light years ahead of UNIX Sys V. In recent times Linux 
improved, e.g. they added futex stuff etc. BSD is far worse than Linux 
in respect of API.

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