NP Client Test

// SONPClient.cpp.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <Windows.h>
#include <cassert>

#define NAMED_PIPE L"\\\\.\\pipe\\stackoverflow"

int main()
{
    HANDLE hPipe = CreateFile(
        NAMED_PIPE,
        GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
        0,
        NULL,
        OPEN_EXISTING,
        0,
        NULL);

    assert(hPipe != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE);

    unsigned total_read = 0;

    const unsigned buffer_size = 8092; //2x the pipe buffer size. half of this buffer will be unused
    char * buf = new char[buffer_size];
    DWORD bytes_read;
    while (ReadFile(hPipe, buf, buffer_size, &bytes_read, NULL))
    {
        //I'm actually getting reads of 8092 bytes despite the server pipe buffer size being 4096.
        //assert(bytes_read <= 4096);

        total_read += bytes_read;

        for (unsigned ix = 0; ix < bytes_read; ix++)
        {
            assert(buf[ix] == 'a'); //just to prove something real comes over the pipes
        }

        memset(buf, 0, buffer_size);
    }

    assert(total_read == 80 * 1024); //all data is received.

    CloseHandle(hPipe);

    delete[] buf;

    return 0;
}