threads and VMS [Re: dce/rpc "client" api]

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Martin Kuhne wrote:

> Async I/O is available in the Win32 API. Check ReadFile(),
> GetQueuedCompletionStatus() and friends for details. In kernel mode you can
> have actual callbacks. Hardly surprising since NT has a VMS background :)
> 
> This lets you move on from a one thread per client to a basically one worker
> thread per CPU architecture. 

that was the intention behind this proposal, yes.

ok!  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_4z1v.htm

interesting.  PostQueuedCompletionStatus(), CreateIOCompletionPort() -
looks exactly like what chris f. was talking about.

thx martin.