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This struct contains utility methods for platform‐independent named pipe operations.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_pipeutil.h>`

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struct PipeUtil;
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/PipeUtil/isOpenForReading.adoc[`isOpenForReading`] 
| Return whether the named pipe is open for reading.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/PipeUtil/makeCanonicalName-05.adoc[`makeCanonicalName`] 
| Load the canonical pipe name for `baseName` into `pipeName`.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/PipeUtil/send.adoc[`send`] 
| Send the specified `message` to the pipe with the specified `pipeName`.
|===



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