The Old New Thing

You can use an OVERLAPPED structure with synchronous I/O, too

April 5, 2012 Apr 5, 2012 04/5/12

Raymond Chen

Even if you didn't open a file with , you can still use the structure when you issue reads and writes. Mind you, the I/O will still complete synchronously, but you can take advantage of the other stuff that has to offer. Specifically, you can take advantage of the and members to issue the I/O against a file location different from the ...