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# Asynchronious IO for Windows | ||
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`Win32-network` provides low level api for doing IO / networking on Windows | ||
using Overlapped (or asynchronous) IO. It supports: | ||
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* `File` Api | ||
* `NamedPipes` Api | ||
* `winsock2` - Berkeley sockets api on Windows | ||
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`NamedPipes` provide a good alternative for the lack of Unix Sockets on | ||
Windows, and there are ways of providing abstraction for both, though this is | ||
not present in this package. | ||
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An application which is using this package should use `-threaded` option, as | ||
the io manager thread runs a blocking ffi call (e.g. | ||
[GetQueuedCompletionStatus](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset/nf-ioapiset-getqueuedcompletionstatus)). |