[PATCH] Initialize IO_STATUS_BLOCK for pread, pwrite

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 29 13:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> - If you do async IO, you have to handle STATUS_PENDING gracefully:
> 
>   - The IO_STATUS_BLOCK given to NtWriteFile *must* exist for the
>     entire time the operation takes after NtWriteFile returned
>     STATUS_PENDING.  An IO_STATUS_BLOCK fhandler member comes to mind,
>     maybe fhandler_base_overlapped::io_status can be reused.

No, wait.  There can be more than one outstanding aio operations on the
same descriptor.  Therefore the IO_STATUS_BLOCK must be connected to the
aiocb struct one way or the other, becasue only that struct is local to
the aio operation.


Corinna

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