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Correct a few statements in README.
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## Features
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- Displays name and number of active/maximum connections, like [pipelist.exe](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pipelist) from [SysInternals Suite](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/) does, and creation timestamp as a bonus.
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- Displays name and number of active/maximum connections, like [pipelist.exe](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pipelist) from [SysInternals Suite](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/) does.
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- Highlights newly created and removed pipes, like [Process Explorer](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer) from SysInternals Suite does.
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- Displays ACLs (for non-busy pipes).
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- Gives hints about well-known pipe names.
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- Pipe pinning, allowing to place all the pipes you're interested in together.
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- Multilanguage support (English and Russian for now).
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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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- This could work like a hint for "is there any free server pipe end?" question, though.
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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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