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Posted by iitagsdotorg, 07-25-2009, 12:17 PM Hi all, I'm trying to create a named pipe to communicate with another application from a PHP application. The thing is that I cannot use any of the posix functions on Windows, including posix_mkfifo. Is there any other way to create a named pipe and if so... how? Thanks in advance. < > Last edited by Mike V; 07-25-2009 at 12:20 PM.
Posted by kieransimkin, 07-27-2009, 01:01 PM I've had a little scan through the documentation and it looks like PHP's support for inter-process communication on Windows is very weak. Looks like perhaps the only IPC functionality available on Windows is this (and even that's only in newer versions of Windows): http://us3.php.net/manual/en/intro.shmop.php
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