How can I get a list of all open named pipes in Windows and avoiding possible exceptions?
I dug into Directory class source code and found an inspiration. Here is a working solution which gives you list of all opened named pipes. My result does not contain \\.\pipe\ prefix as it can be seen in result of Directory.GetFiles. I tested my solution on WinXp SP3, Win 7, Win 8.1.
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
struct WIN32_FIND_DATA
{
public uint dwFileAttributes;
public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME ftCreationTime;
public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME ftLastAccessTime;
public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME ftLastWriteTime;
public uint nFileSizeHigh;
public uint nFileSizeLow;
public uint dwReserved0;
public uint dwReserved1;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 260)]
public string cFileName;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 14)]
public string cAlternateFileName;
}
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindFirstFile(string lpFileName, out WIN32_FIND_DATA lpFindFileData);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool FindNextFile(IntPtr hFindFile, out WIN32_FIND_DATA
lpFindFileData);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool FindClose(IntPtr hFindFile);
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var namedPipes = new List<string>();
WIN32_FIND_DATA lpFindFileData;
var ptr = FindFirstFile(@"\\.\pipe\*", out lpFindFileData);
namedPipes.Add(lpFindFileData.cFileName);
while (FindNextFile(ptr, out lpFindFileData))
{
namedPipes.Add(lpFindFileData.cFileName);
}
FindClose(ptr);
namedPipes.Sort();
foreach (var v in namedPipes)
Console.WriteLine(v);
Console.ReadLine();
}