
Overlapped I/O is an asynchronous I/O extension of the Windows APIs, which was introduced 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 imm....
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