Overlapped I/O
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overlapped-i-o-263-13798528
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Overlapped I/O
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Overlapped I/O is a name used for asynchronous I/O in the Windows API. It was introduced as an extension to the API in Windows NT. Utilizing overlapped I/O requires passing an OVERLAPPED structure to API functions that normally block, including ReadFile, WriteFile, and Winsock's WSASend and WSARecv. The requested operation is initiated by a function call which returns immediately, and is completed by the OS in the background. The caller may optionally specify a Win32 event handle to be raised wh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapped_I/O
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2023-11-09T09:33:17Z
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