os: named pipes support on Windows

[nsf]

Just want to drop a note here. Sorry for me not willing to implement it myself. Consider
it as a feature request.

On *nix we have unix sockets - a standard way of doing IPC (interprocess communication).
On windows we can use TCP sockets for doing the IPC, but a natural way of doing so
according to this page
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365574(v=vs.85).aspx) is
named pipes. Very close analogy to unix sockets. Providing the appropriate functions in
the syscall package as well as integrating them with "net" package sounds like
a good idea to me.

[alexbrainman]

Comment 1:

Just my 2 cents. I have used named pipes on Windows in the past. It is useful facility
at times, because they look like files, so it is easy to use them from different
languages. I am not sure if they belong in "standard" library. People who need them
should create go gettable package.
Alex

[rsc]

Comment 2:

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to Accepted.

[natefinch]

Comment 3:

I made an implementation here:
https://github.com/natefinch/npipe
It should be considered beta-quality software, as it has not been put to rigorous use
yet. I encourage pull requests.

[rsc]

Comment 4:

Labels changed: added go1.3maybe.

[dsymonds]

Comment 5:

Labels changed: added os-windows, feature, removed priority-later.

[rsc]

Comment 6:

Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 7:

Labels changed: added repo-main.

[kardianos]

Comment 8:

No action has happened on this. Would a CL be desirable for the net or sub-repo net
package? I have used nate's npipe package for quite some time now. It works well and is
very robust in my experience.
As this is a Windows only feature, I'm doubtful it belongs in the standard repo. Perhaps
in net sub-repo at best? I for one am fine with it as a go-gettable package, though I'd
hate to see it disappear if nate did.
I would vote to just recognize the status quo and close the issue. Get this feature
from: gopkg.in/natefinch/npipe.v2
.

[alexbrainman]

Comment 9:

SGTM
nate's package looks nice, and anyone can "go get" it. Closing this issue unless someone
objects.
Alex

Status changed to WontFix.