RE: eventio API

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov@measurement-factory.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 February 2001 10:48 AM
> To: Henrik Nordstrom
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: eventio API
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>

> To handle W2K "overlapping I/Os", you need to specify that write()
> callbacks may not be called in the order the write buffers were
> supplied. Likewise on the read() side. If you expect the wrappers to
> ensure the notification order, that has to be documented (and you may
> have problems with notifying the user that buf#2 was filled but buf#1
> callback never came).
>

A side-question:
I don't actually know the win32 API terribly well :-[ - are overlapping
I/O's available under win9x or are they a win2K feature? I believe that
win9x and above all have async tcp and disk API's available.

Rob
Received on Mon Feb 19 2001 - 17:34:18 MST