ingwalt / named-pipe-ipc

This is repository contains implementation for Named-Pipe Client in Golang(go).

named-pipe-ipc

This is repository contains implementation for Named-Pipe Client in Golang(Go).

Windows Named-pipe Documentation : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/named-pipes

Background

Recently, I came across a requirement that we needed to communicate between two different running executables where one executable was written in C# and second one executable was written in Golang. So I decided to use named-pipe as a way to implement IPC. This repo contains named-pipe client and named-pipe server implementation purely written in Golang.

There is an another repo which contains named-pipe server implementation in C#.

Steps to run

• Clone the repo and run navigate to project repo directory.
• Open windows powershell(Admin) and run server using below command

go run server.go

• Above command would start a named-pipe server and this server can send/receive message from any named-pipe client.

• Open windows powershell(Admin) and run client using below command

go run client.go

• Note that above command would only start a named-pipe client which can connect to the already existing named-pipe server. So it is necessarry to run the server before running the client.

• There is another repo which can be used for starting named-pipe server for IPC. This server is implemented in C#. Link - Named-Pipe Server Repo

Supported Platform/Version

• This implemtation is only for Windows currently.
• Go version used while writing - go 1.13

Credits -

• https://github.com/natefinch