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## Known issues
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Since Windows doesn't keep timestamps of pipe creation, the creation timestamp is determined by the time the named pipe is first seen.
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- The NPFS driver doesn't keep timestamps of pipe creation, so the creation timestamp is determined by the time the named pipe is first seen.
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- The named pipes that get quickly created and deleted (or deleted and re-created) between scans won't be noticed about at all.
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- The ACLs could not be extracted from pipes without a free server end. Also, for the same reason reading of ACLs may disrupt processes trying to connect to the same ACL.
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The named pipes that get quickly created and deleted (or deleted and re-created) between scans won't be noticed about at all.
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All of those could be fixed by installing a filesystem filter driver which will gather and export this information. Unfortunately, somebody needs to write such driver first.
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## TODO
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- Extraction of ACLs for pipes which only SYSTEM has access to.
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- More/better hints (see the GetHintFor() function in Models/PipeModel.cs).
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- Keep selected line in view when many named pipes gets created or deleted.

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