microsoft/go-winio

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library from Microsoft providing Win32 IO utilities, focused on named pipes and file handles, including using named pipes as a net transport. It uses IO completion ports for non-blocking IO on Windows Vista and newer.

Use cases

• use named pipes as a network transport in Go on Windows
• perform non-blocking Win32 file IO from Go
• communicate with Windows services over named pipes
• build Windows container tooling that talks to named pipes
• access low-level file handles efficiently in Go

When to choose

• you need named pipe or Win32 handle IO in a Go program on Windows
• you want non-blocking IO that integrates with Go's goroutine scheduler
• you're building Windows-specific infrastructure like Docker/container components

When to avoid

• your application is cross-platform and doesn't need Windows-specific IO
• you only need standard network sockets or regular file IO
• you need to support Windows versions older than Vista

Facets

library · maturity stable

file-system networking concurrency developer-tools windows operating-systems windows go named-pipes win32 io-completion-ports go-library

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