Re: problem with ReadFile using Overlapped I/O in VC++
<vanisathish@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to wait for the event to get signalled or timeout after 300
mSec. But i noticed that this function is returning 0x0 which means
WAIT_OBJECT_0 i.e. the event is signalled. But when i do
GetOverlappedResult to read the number of bytes read it is returning
as 0.
How can this happen?. The Event should get signalled only when the
ReadFile has some data in it?. What is the problem here.
No, the event should get signaled when the ReadFile completes the overlapped
operation, no matter what the reason for the completion. So it could
complete due to a timeout, or due to a comm error.
I dont want the ReadIntervalTimeouts to be set to some values in order
to get this overlapped I/O working. If i had to use the
ReadIntervalTimeouts , then i can use the normal non-overlapped I/O.
Appreciate your help
You need timeouts to handle the case when data stops coming in for a while.
That's needed with or without overlapped I/O.
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