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Open a named pipe and start a thread with the given attributes.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balb_pipecontrolchannel.h>`

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template<class STRING_TYPE>
int
start(
    STRING_TYPE const& pipeName,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslmt/ThreadAttributes.adoc[bslmt::ThreadAttributes] const& attributes);
----

== Description

Equivalent to `start(pipeName, attributes)` for a `STRING_TYPE` pipe name.

== Return Value

0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *pipeName*
| name of the named pipe to open
| *attributes*
| attributes of the background processing thread
|===


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