> DosCreatePipe() is for anonymous pipes -- a completely different monster,  
 > from the unix world,  ususally used for redirection and piping the output 
 > from one program to another.

 > DosCreateNPipe() is used to create named pipes, message mode or byte mode.

 >    > And I want it
 >  PS> to be unnamed, since 
 >  PS> several processes will call the same routine.

 > More than one process can use the same pipe name to connect to the server 
 > process(es).

Yeah, I read about that. But each process will be separate, I will simply 
startx several instances of on EXE. Prefarably without any multi-process 
implementation. Each process shouldn't have to know if it's "alone" or if 
there are 123 other instances of itself. But as I understand it, a named pipe 
can only exist as one pipe, serverclient. But can however allow multiple 
clients access the same pipe, but not multiple servers. That's the problem. I 
could do a "super-server" that takes care of all the pipe:ing,
but it would 
take to much CPU, 3 times as much.

Is it at all possbile to achive the possibility to create multiple instances 
of one pipe that is 100% separate when the clients/servers are concerned?
I wanna save as much CPU as possible. And to modify names of the pipes both in 
the server/client would hog some extra CPU.

Thank you very much!

/ Peter Schuller   [TeamOS/2]   petere.schuller{at}noreva.se


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