The Old New Thing

February 6, 2014 - The Old New Thing

The United States Team uniforms for the opening ceremony is rather hideous, and illegal, and a bit anachronistic

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14
Raymond Chen
By the time you read this, the opening ceremony for a large sporting event organized by a lawsuit-happy organization may already have taken place. As part of the ceremony, the team representing the United States entered wearing ugly uniforms. They're so ugly that even the hideous Christmas sweater in your closet, the one with the reindeer ...

If an asynchronous I/O completes synchronously, is the hEvent in the OVERLAPPED structure signaled anyway?

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14
Raymond Chen
Yes. When an I/O completes (whether synchronously or asynchronously), the event is signaled and completion status notifications are queued. The function can be used to wait on an I/O that has already completed; it will merely return immediately. If you ask whether the I/O has completed, and the I/O completed synchronously, it will correctly...