listen(tempname()) fails on Windows

[TeroFrondelius]

Linux:

julia> listen(tempname())
Base.PipeServer(active)

julia> 

Windows:

julia> listen(tempname())
ERROR: ArgumentError: could not listen on path \AppData\Local\Temp\jl_ADD1.tmp
 in listen(::String) at .\stream.jl:944

julia>

Both with version v"0.5.0"

Documentation propose this should work also in Windows: http://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/networking-and-streams/#a-simple-tcp-example

julia> listen("testsocket") # Listens on a UNIX domain socket/named pipe
PipeServer(active)

Note that the return type of the last invocation is different. This is because this server does not listen on TCP, but rather on a named pipe (Windows) or UNIX domain socket.

[tkelman]

probably related: #9053

[vtjnash]

Windows doesn't support arbitrary paths, it requires that they conform to a specific pattern such that their name prefix (\\.\pipe\) uniquely identifies the filetype: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365783(v=vs.85).aspx

[TeroFrondelius]

Thanks @vtjnash this works:

julia> server = listen("\\\\.\\pipe\\lintserver7632sKFV0Qsock")
Base.PipeServer(active)

julia>

I think the documentation needs a small update. Maybe one Windows example? I guess this cannot be a doctest, because it would be Windows only?

How about adding a new function: tempsocket() or tempnamedpipe()? Which would return correctly named pipe with random temporyname for Windows and tempname() for Linux.