moby: Cannot locate Windows named pipe "docker_engine" after passing -v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine

Description

I’m trying to mount the docker named pipe to a container in order to communicate with the docker host on the same machine. I’m using pipelist64.exe from SysInternals to inspect named pipes in the container (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pipelist) Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Use this docker file to build the image

FROM microsoft/windowsservercore:latest

WORKDIR /app


COPY pipelist64.exe .

1. Run the container with docker run -v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine -i image
2. at the command prompt, run pipelist64.exe -accepteula

Describe the results you received:

PipeList v1.02 - Lists open named pipes
Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Pipe Name                                    Instances       Max Instances
---------                                    ---------       -------------
InitShutdown                                      3               -1
lsass                                             5               -1
ntsvcs                                            3               -1
scerpc                                            3               -1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-444-0              1                1
epmapper                                          3               -1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-100-0              1                1
LSM_API_service                                   3               -1
eventlog                                          3               -1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-4c0-0              1                1
TermSrv_API_service                               3               -1
Ctx_WinStation_API_service                        3               -1
wkssvc                                            6               -1
winreg                                            3               -1
cexec-141                                         1                1
cexec-142                                         1                1
cexec-143                                         1                1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-228-0              1                1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-4fc-0              1                1
SessEnvPublicRpc                                  3               -1
Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-290-0              1                1

Describe the results you expected: I expect to see docker_engine in the list

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:       18.03.0-ce-rc1
 API version:   1.37
 Go version:    go1.9.4
 Git commit:    c160c73
 Built: Thu Feb 22 02:34:04 2018
 OS/Arch:       windows/amd64
 Experimental:  false
 Orchestrator:  swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:      18.03.0-ce-rc1
  API version:  1.37 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:   go1.9.4
  Git commit:   c160c73
  Built:        Thu Feb 22 02:41:20 2018
  OS/Arch:      windows/amd64
  Experimental: true

Output of docker info:

Containers: 15
 Running: 2
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 13
Images: 11
Server Version: 18.03.0-ce-rc1
Storage Driver: windowsfilter (windows) lcow (linux)
 Windows:
 LCOW:
Logging Driver: json-file
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: ics l2bridge l2tunnel nat null overlay transparent
 Log: awslogs etwlogs fluentd gelf json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Default Isolation: hyperv
Kernel Version: 10.0 16299 (16299.15.amd64fre.rs3_release.170928-1534)
Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise
OSType: windows
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 16
Total Memory: 31.94GiB
Name: DevStation9
ID: UUVQ:NZ2B:DUES:KFDG:ZSTT:VSS2:CM3J:G5GV:NXY2:CTHA:YTKX:YC4G
Docker Root Dir: C:\ProgramData\Docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
 File Descriptors: -1
 Goroutines: 69
 System Time: 2018-03-12T10:05:02.8901376-04:00
 EventsListeners: 1
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,