From f9c9934babb2b37cbfc80fd18ad024f77a5cfbe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Martin <totaam@xpra.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:40:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] support absolute named-pipe paths

git-svn-id: https://xpra.org/svn/Xpra/trunk@15193 3bb7dfac-3a0b-4e04-842a-767bc560f471
---
 src/xpra/scripts/main.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/xpra/scripts/main.py b/src/xpra/scripts/main.py
index baad2d46fa..618dbf2e18 100755
--- a/src/xpra/scripts/main.py
+++ b/src/xpra/scripts/main.py
@@ -1755,9 +1755,13 @@ def sockpathfail_cb(msg):
         if not WIN32:
             raise InitException("named pipes are only supported on MS Windows")
         import errno
-        from xpra.platform.win32.dotxpra import PIPE_PATH
+        from xpra.platform.win32.dotxpra import PIPE_PATH, PIPE_ROOT
         from xpra.platform.win32.namedpipes.connection import NamedPipeConnection, connect_to_namedpipe
-        path = PIPE_PATH+pipe_name
+        if pipe_name.startswith(PIPE_ROOT):
+            #absolute pipe path already specified
+            path = pipe_name
+        else:
+            path = PIPE_PATH+pipe_name
         try:
             pipe_handle = connect_to_namedpipe(path)
         except Exception as e: