CreatePipeHandles¶

Function to create a set of pipe handles.

Declaration¶

Source position: pipes.pp line 62

function CreatePipeHandles(var Inhandle: THandle; 
                          var OutHandle: THandle; 
                          APipeBufferSize: Cardinal=1024) : Boolean;

Arguments¶

Name	Description
Inhandle	File handle for reading end of the pipe.
OutHandle	File handle for writing end of the pipe.
APipeBufferSize	Buffer size to be used for the pipe.

Function result¶

True if the call was successful, False if not.

Description¶

CreatePipeHandles provides an OS-independent way to create a set of pipe filehandles. These handles are inheritable to child processes. The reading end of the pipe is returned in InHandle, the writing end in OutHandle.

Errors¶

On error, False is returned.