One more Win32 programming question for OSProcess

David Chase chase at world.std.com
Wed Feb 27 13:02:49 UTC 2002


At 08:42 AM 2/26/2002 -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
>The general mechanisms for handling file i/o asyncronously in Windows
>are called "I/O completion ports"...but, these APIs are only available
>on operating systems using the NT kernel (which all current Windows OSes
>use).

Strictly speaking you are correct about the availability, but they are
not available on 95, 98, or ME.  Of course, those OSes are also not
especially friendly to very many threads, either.

David Chase




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