Named pipes in Qt

[seneca]

Unfortunately QLocalSocket prevents from connecting to other servers, and only allows to connect to local pipe servers (well, surely to satisfy the "Local" in the class name.

With a small hack that could be fixed however, I think changing the server name adjustment in qlocalsocket_win.cpp could do the trick:

Original:

QString pipePath = QLatin1String("\\\\.\\pipe\\");
if (name.startsWith(pipePath))
    d->fullServerName = name;
else
    d->fullServerName = pipePath + name;

QString pipePath = QLatin1String("\\\\.\\pipe\\");
if (name.startsWith(pipePath))
    d->fullServerName = name;
else
    d->fullServerName = pipePath + name;

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Hacked:

QString pipePath = QLatin1String("\\\\.\\pipe\\");
if (name.startsWith(QLatin1String("\\\\")))
    d->fullServerName = name;
else
    d->fullServerName = pipePath + name;

QString pipePath = QLatin1String("\\\\.\\pipe\\");
if (name.startsWith(QLatin1String("\\\\")))
    d->fullServerName = name;
else
    d->fullServerName = pipePath + name;

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