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and Win32::API can give access to PeekNamedPipe with minimal fuss.

In theory yes, but have you actually tried it? I did a while ago and coudn't make it work from Perl/via Win32::API, though it worked fine in a C program.

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Re^13: Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 30, 2008 at 23:27 UTC
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