[Bug 17195] NamedPipe datagrams need to be _really_ datagrams

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17195

--- Comment #42 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> 2011-12-16 14:16:01 CST ---
dan, it's more than that: you're forgetting that NamedPipes are fundamental
and critical to wine at a low-level.  i've mentioned several times now that
the implementation of ncalrpc [incorrectly] uses NamedPipes when it should
be using an implementation of local-communication [that *can* be kernel-based
or wine's equivalent thereof].

even just doing service start, stop and other management; registry edits
and reads, *everything* that's fundamental to nt is based around MSRPC,
and that means that everything that's fundamental is critically dependent
[accidentally] on NamedPipes.

you will cause *massive* resource starvation.  do a profile (gprof) on a
range of applications (or use debug grepping, whatever) looking for
WriteFile and ReadFile and Transact2 on NamedPipes.  i think you'll find
that even running "ordinary" applications has a severe performance penalty
as well as massive resource usage.

i wrote this patch as a demo, and proved that yes it can be done but it is
*not* suitable for production usage.

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