RE: eventio API

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov@measurement-factory.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 February 2001 11:51 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: eventio API
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > A side-question:
> > I don't actually know the win32 API terribly well :-[ -
>
> Neither do I. I know that MS folks told my team to add support for
> "overlapped I/O" to get decent performance from Polygraph on W2K.
> According to MS, performance using select/poll will be noticeably
> worse.
>
> > 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.
>
> "Overlapped I/O" is a "Windows Sockets 2" feature. They are different
> from poll/select primitives. I do not know what Windows versions
> support "Windows Sockets 2".
>
> Alex.
>
> P.S. The correct term is "overlapped I/O" not "overlapping I/Os".
> Sorry about the typo.
>

Cool. Winsock 2 is available for windows 9x and above ( has to be
downloaded for some windows versions).

Thanks
Rob
Received on Mon Feb 19 2001 - 17:52:12 MST