DosWaitNPipe - Parameters

pszName (PSZ) - input

A pointer to the ASCIIZ name of the pipe to be opened.

msec (ULONG) - input

The maximum time, in milliseconds, to wait for a named-pipe instance to become available.

When a value of 0 is specified, DosWaitNPipe uses the value of msec that was specified when the pipe was created with DosCreateNPipe. When a value of -1 is specified, DosWaitNPipe waits indefinitely.

ulrc (APIRET) - returns

Return Code.

DosWaitNPipe returns one of the following values:

• NO_ERROR 2
  ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
  95
  ERROR_INTERRUPT
  121
  ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT
  230
  ERROR_BAD_PIPE
  231
  ERROR_PIPE_BUSY
  For a full list of error codes, see Errors.

---

[Back: DosWaitNPipe Return Value - ulrc]
[Next: DosWaitNPipe - Remarks]