Re: CreatePipe() problem
"Adi" <aditya.bvcoek@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I am injecting a DLL into Acrobat reader process to trace the ReadFile
API. Whenever the ReadFile is called, I send the filename through a
named pipe which is collected at the host process.
What I observed is that small files have fewer number of ReadFile
calls than larger files.
No suprprise there.
But the problem is that when the pdf is big
(say over 300 pages), the CreatePipe() call in my host process fails
i.e. an invalid handle is returned.
Do you create a new pipe every time ReadFile is called? Do you close any
of those pipe handles? It looks like the answers are yes and no, and you
simply run out of handles. When CreatePipe call fails, what does
GetLastError return?
Why don't you create the pipe once, and send all subsequent
notifications over the same pipe? Then it wouldn't matter if there are
few or many ReadFile calls.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
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