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Nerding out

2002-08-01 17:56:48+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Reasons I hate Windows #981235: From the Windows base Services General Technical Articles: Serial Communications in Win32 page:

The Platform SDK documentation uses the terms asynchronous and synchronous to connote these types of I/O operations. This article, however, uses the terms overlapped and nonoverlapped.

Take bets on what the API uses to refer to these concepts? At least this time it's not yet a third option.

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#Comment made: 2002-08-01 17:58:55+00 by: ebradway

blocking and non-blocking...