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-    <title>Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers</title>
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-<h1>Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers</h1>
-<p>Ryan Dahl ryan@joyent.com
-<p>This document assumes you are familiar with how non-blocking socket I/O
-is done in Unix.
-<p>The syscall
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740141(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>select</code>
-  is available in Windows</a>
-but <code>select</code> processing is O(n) in the number of file descriptors
-unlike the modern constant-time multiplexers like epoll which makes select
-unacceptable for high-concurrency servers.
-This document will describe how high-concurrency programs are
-designed in Windows.
-<p>
-Instead of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll">epoll</a>
-or
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kqueue">kqueue</a>,
-Windows has its own I/O multiplexer  called
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365198(VS.85).aspx">I/O completion ports</a>
-(IOCPs). IOCPs are the objects used to poll
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686358(v=vs.85).aspx">overlapped I/O</a>
-for completion. IOCP polling is constant time (REF?).
-<p>
-The fundamental variation is that in a Unix you generally ask the kernel to
-wait for state change in a file descriptor's readability or writablity. With
-overlapped I/O and IOCPs the programmers waits for asynchronous function
-calls to complete.
-For example, instead of waiting for a socket to become writable and then
-using <a
-  href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/send.2.html"><code>send(2)</code></a>
-on it, as you commonly would do in a Unix, with overlapped I/O you
-would rather <a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742203(v=vs.85).aspx"><code>WSASend()</code></a>
-the data and then wait for it to have been sent.
-<p> Unix non-blocking I/O is not beautiful. A principle abstraction in Unix
-is the unified treatment of many things as files (or more precisely as file
-descriptors). <code>write(2)</code>, <code>read(2)</code>, and
-<code>close(2)</code> work with TCP sockets just as they do on regular
-files. Well&mdash;kind of. Synchronous operations work similarly on different
-types of file descriptors but once demands on performance drive you to world of
-<code>O_NONBLOCK</code> various types of file descriptors can act quite
-different for even the most basic operations. In particular,
-regular file system files do <i>not</i> support non-blocking operations.
-(Disturbingly no man page mentions this rather important fact.)
-For example, one cannot poll on a regular file FD for readability expecting
-it to indicate when it is safe to do a non-blocking read.
-Regular file are always readable and <code>read(2)</code> calls
-<i>always</i> have the possibility of blocking the calling thread for an
-unknown amount of time.
-<p>POSIX has defined <a
-  href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/aio.h.html">an
-  asynchronous interface</a> for some operations but implementations for
-many Unixes have unclear status. On Linux the
-<code>aio_*</code> routines are implemented in userland in GNU libc using
-pthreads.
-<a
-  href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/io_submit.2.html"><code>io_submit(2)</code></a>
-does not have a GNU libc wrapper and has been reported <a
-  href="http://voinici.ceata.org/~sana/blog/?p=248"> to be very slow and
-  possibly blocking</a>. <a
-  href="http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5171/aio-write-3rt/index.html">Solaris
-  has real kernel AIO</a> but it's unclear what its performance
-characteristics are for socket I/O as opposed to disk I/O.
-Contemporary high-performance Unix socket programs use non-blocking
-file descriptors with a I/O multiplexer&mdash;not POSIX AIO.
-Common practice for accessing the disk asynchronously is still done using custom
-userland thread pools&mdash;not POSIX AIO.
-<p>Windows IOCPs does support both sockets and regular file I/O which
-greatly simplifies the handling of disks. For example,
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365468(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadFileEx()</code></a>
-operates on both.
-As a first example let's look at how <code>ReadFile()</code> works.
-<pre>
-typedef void* HANDLE;
-BOOL ReadFile(HANDLE file,
-              void* buffer,
-              DWORD numberOfBytesToRead,
-              DWORD* numberOfBytesRead,
-              OVERLAPPED* overlapped);
-</pre>
-<p>
-The function has the possibility of executing the read synchronously
-or asynchronously. A synchronous operation is indicated by
-returning 0 and <a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741580(v=VS.85).aspx">WSAGetLastError()</code></a>
-returning <code>WSA_IO_PENDING</code>.
-When <code>ReadFile()</code> operates asynchronously the
-the user-supplied <a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741665(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>OVERLAPPED*</code></a>
-is a handle to the incomplete operation.
-<pre>
-typedef struct {
-  unsigned long* Internal;
-  unsigned long* InternalHigh;
-  union {
-    struct {
-      WORD Offset;
-      WORD OffsetHigh;
-    };
-    void* Pointer;
-  };
-  HANDLE hEvent;
-} OVERLAPPED;
-</pre>
-To poll on the completion of one of these functions,
-use an IOCP, <code>overlapped->hEvent</code>, and
-<a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364986(v=vs.85).aspx"><code>GetQueuedCompletionStatus()</code></a>.
-<h3>Simple TCP Connection Example</h3>
-<p>To demonstrate the use of <code>GetQueuedCompletionStatus()</code> an
-example of connecting to <code>localhost</code> at port 8000 is presented.
-<pre>
-char* buffer[200];
-WSABUF b = { buffer, 200 };
-size_t bytes_recvd;
-int r, total_events;
-OVERLAPPED overlapped;
-HANDLE port;
-port = CreateIoCompletionPort(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, NULL, NULL, 0);
-if (!port) {
-  goto error;
-}
-r = WSARecv(socket, &b, 1, &bytes_recvd, NULL, &overlapped, NULL);
-CreateIoCompletionPort(port, &overlapped.hEvent,
-if (r == 0) {
-  if (WSAGetLastError() == WSA_IO_PENDING) {
-    /* Asynchronous */
-    GetQueuedCompletionStatus()
-    if (r == WAIT_TIMEOUT) {
-      printf("Timeout\n");
-    } else {
-    }
-  } else {
-    /* Error */
-    printf("Error %d\n", WSAGetLastError());
-  }
-} else {
-  /* Synchronous */
-  printf("read %ld bytes from socket\n", bytes_recvd);
-}
-</pre>
-<h3>Previous Work</h3>
-<p> Writing code that can take advantage of the best worlds on across Unix operating
-systems and Windows is very difficult, requiring one to understand intricate
-APIs and undocumented details from many different operating systems. There
-are several projects which have made attempts to provide an abstraction
-layer but in the author's opinion, none are completely satisfactory.
-<p><b>Marc Lehmann's
-  <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html">libev</a> and
-  <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libeio.html">libeio</a>.</b>
-  libev is the perfect minimal abstraction of the Unix I/O multiplexers. It
-  includes several helpful tools like <code>ev_async</code>, which is for
-  asynchronous notification, but the main piece is the <code>ev_io</code>,
-  which informs the user about the state of file descriptors. As mentioned
-  before, in general it is not possible to get state changes for regular
-  files&mdash;and even if it were the <code>write(2)</code> and
-  <code>read(2)</code> calls do not guarantee that they won't block.
-  Therefore libeio is provided for calling various disk-related
-  syscalls in a managed thread pool. Unfortunately the abstraction layer
-  which libev targets is not appropriate for IOCPs&mdash;libev works strictly
-  with file descriptors and does not the concept of a <i>socket</i>.
-  Furthermore users on Unix will be using libeio for file I/O which is not
-  ideal for porting to Windows. On windows libev currently uses
-  <code>select()</code>&mdash;which is limited to 64 file descriptors per
-  thread.
-<p><b><a href="http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">libevent</a>.</b>
-  Somewhat bulkier than libev with code for RPC, DNS, and HTTP included.
-  Does not support file I/O.
-  libev was
-  created after Lehmann <a
-    href="http://www.mail-archive.com/libevent-users@monkey.org/msg00753.html">evaluated
-    libevent and rejected it</a>&mdash;it's interesting to read his reasons
-  why.  <a
-    href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/01/libevent-20x-like-libevent-14x-only.html">A
-    major rewrite</a> was done for version 2 to support Windows IOCPs but <a
-    href="http://www.mail-archive.com/libevent-users@monkey.org/msg01730.html">anecdotal
-    evidence</a> suggests that it is still not working correctly.
-<p><b><a
-    href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html">Boost
-    ASIO</a>.</b> It basically does what you want on Windows and Unix for
-    sockets. That is, epoll on Linux, kqueue on Macintosh, IOCPs on Windows.
-    It does not support file I/O. In the author's opinion is it too large
-    for a not extremely difficult problem (~300 files, ~12000 semicolons).
-<h2>File Types</h2>
-<p>
-Almost every socket operation that you're familiar with has an
-overlapped counter-part. The following section tries to pair Windows
-overlapped I/O syscalls with non-blocking Unix ones.
-<h3>TCP Sockets</h3>
-TCP Sockets are by far the most important stream to get right.
-Servers should expect to be handling tens of thousands of these
-per thread, concurrently. This is possible with overlapped I/O in Windows if
-one is careful to avoid Unix-ism like file descriptors. (Windows has a
-hard limit of 2048 open file descriptors&mdash;see
-<a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6e3b887c.aspx"><code>_setmaxstdio()</code></a>.)
-<dl>
-<dt><code>send(2)</code>, <code>write(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>Windows:
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742203(v=vs.85).aspx"><code>WSASend()</code></a>,
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365748(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WriteFileEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>recv(2)</code>, <code>read(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-Windows:
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741688(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WSARecv()</code></a>,
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365468(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadFileEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>connect(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-Windows: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737606(VS.85).aspx"><code>ConnectEx()</code></a>
-<p>
-Non-blocking <code>connect()</code> is has difficult semantics in
-Unix. The proper way to connect to a remote host is this: call
-<code>connect(2)</code> while it returns
-<code>EINPROGRESS</code> poll on the file descriptor for writablity.
-Then use
-<pre>int error;
-socklen_t len = sizeof(int);
-getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, &error, &len);</pre>
-A zero <code>error</code> indicates that the connection succeeded.
-(Documented in <code>connect(2)</code> under <code>EINPROGRESS</code>
-on the Linux man page.)
-</dd>
-<dt><code>accept(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-Windows: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737524(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>AcceptEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>sendfile(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-Windows: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740565(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>TransmitFile()</code></a>
-<p> The exact API of <code>sendfile(2)</code> on Unix has not been agreed
-on yet. Each operating system does it slightly different. All
-<code>sendfile(2)</code> implementations (except possibly FreeBSD?) are blocking
-even on non-blocking sockets.
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/sendfile.2.html">Linux <code>sendfile(2)</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendfile&sektion=2">FreeBSD <code>sendfile(2)</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/sendfile/">Darwin <code>sendfile(2)</code></a>
-</ul>
-Marc Lehmann has written <a
-  href="https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/2c185a9dfd3be8e718858b946333c433c375c295/deps/libeio/eio.c#L954-1080">a
-  portable version in libeio</a>.
-</dd>
-<dt><code>shutdown(2)</code>, graceful close, half-duplex connections</dt>
-<dd>
-<a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738547(v=VS.85).aspx">Graceful
-  Shutdown, Linger Options, and Socket Closure</a>
-<br/>
-<a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737757(VS.85).aspx"><code>DisconnectEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>close(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737582(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>closesocket()</code></a>
-</dd>
-The following are nearly same in Windows overlapped and Unix
-non-blocking sockets. The only difference is that the Unix variants
-take integer file descriptors while Windows uses <code>SOCKET</code>.
-<ul>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740496(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>sockaddr</code></a>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737550(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>bind()</code></a>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738543(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>getsockname()</code></a>
-</ul>
-<h3>Named Pipes</h3>
-Windows has "named pipes" which are more or less the same as <a
-  href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/unix.7.html"><code>AF_Unix</code>
-  domain sockets</a>. <code>AF_Unix</code> sockets exist in the file system
-often looking like
-<pre>/tmp/<i>pipename</i></pre>
-Windows named pipes have a path, but they are not directly part of the file
-system; instead they look like
-<pre>\\.\pipe\<i>pipename</i></pre>
-<dl>
-<dt><code>socket(AF_Unix, SOCK_STREAM, 0), bind(2), listen(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx"><code>CreateNamedPipe()</code></a>
-<p>Use <code>FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED</code>, <code>PIPE_TYPE_BYTE</code>,
-<code>PIPE_NOWAIT</code>.
-</dd>
-<dt><code>send(2)</code>, <code>write(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365748(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WriteFileEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>recv(2)</code>, <code>read(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365468(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadFileEx()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>connect(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx"><code>CreateNamedPipe()</code></a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>accept(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365146(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ConnectNamedPipe()</code></a>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-Examples:
-<ul>
-<li><a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365601(v=VS.85).aspx">Named
-  Pipe Server Using Completion Routines</a>
-<li><a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365603(v=VS.85).aspx">Named
-  Pipe Server Using Overlapped I/O</a>
-</ul>
-<h3>Regular Files</h3>
-<p>
-In Unix file system files are not able to use non-blocking I/O. There are
-some operating systems that have asynchronous I/O but it is not standard and
-at least on Linux is done with pthreads in GNU libc. For this reason
-applications designed to be portable across different Unixes must manage a
-thread pool for issuing file I/O syscalls.
-<p>
-The situation is better in Windows: true overlapped I/O is available when
-reading or writing a stream of data to a file.
-<dl>
-<dt><code>write(2)</code></dt>
-<dd> Windows:
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365748(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WriteFileEx()</code></a>
-<p>Solaris's event completion ports has true in-kernel async writes with <a
-  href="http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5171/aio-write-3rt/index.html">aio_write(3RT)</a>
-</dd>
-<dt><code>read(2)</code></dt>
-<dd> Windows:
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365468(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadFileEx()</code></a>
-<p>Solaris's event completion ports has true in-kernel async reads with <a
-  href="http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5171/aio-read-3rt/index.html">aio_read(3RT)</a>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-<h3>Console/TTY</h3>
-<p>It is (usually?) possible to poll a Unix TTY file descriptor for
-readability or writablity just like a TCP socket&mdash;this is very helpful
-and nice. In Windows the situation is worse, not only is it a completely
-different API but there are not overlapped versions to read and write to the
-TTY. Polling for readability can be accomplished by waiting in another
-thread with <a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685061(VS.85).aspx"><code>RegisterWaitForSingleObject()</code></a>.
-<dl>
-<dt><code>read(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684958(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadConsole()</code></a>
-and
-<a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684961(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ReadConsoleInput()</code></a>
-do not support overlapped I/O and there are no overlapped
-counter-parts. One strategy to get around this is
-<pre><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685061(VS.85).aspx">RegisterWaitForSingleObject</a>(&tty_wait_handle, tty_handle,
-  tty_want_poll, NULL, INFINITE, WT_EXECUTEINWAITTHREAD |
-  WT_EXECUTEONLYONCE)</pre>
-which will execute <code>tty_want_poll()</code> in a different thread.
-You can use this to notify the calling thread that
-<code>ReadConsoleInput()</code> will not block.
-</dd>
-<dt><code>write(2)</code></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687401(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WriteConsole()</code></a>
-is also blocking but this is probably acceptable.
-</dd>
-<dt><a
-  href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/tcsetattr.3.html"><code>tcsetattr(3)</code></a></dt>
-<dd>
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686033(VS.85).aspx"><code>SetConsoleMode()</code></a>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-<h2>Assorted Links</h2>
-<p>
-tips
-<ul>
-<li> overlapped = non-blocking.
-<li> There is no overlapped <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738518(VS.85).aspx"><code>GetAddrInfoEx()</code></a> function. It seems Asynchronous Procedure Calls must be used instead.
-<li> <a href=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740673(VS.85).aspx"><code>Windows Sockets 2</code></a>
-</ul>
-<p>
-IOCP:
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686358(v=vs.85).aspx">Synchronization and Overlapped Input and Output</a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741665(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>OVERLAPPED</code> Structure</a>
-  <ul>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683209(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>GetOverlappedResult()</code></a>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683244(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>HasOverlappedIoCompleted()</code></a>
-  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363792(v=vs.85).aspx"><code>CancelIoEx()</code></a>
-  &mdash; cancels an overlapped operation.
-  </ul>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742203(v=vs.85).aspx"><code>WSASend()</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741688(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WSARecv()</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737606(VS.85).aspx"><code>ConnectEx()</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740565(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>TransmitFile()</code></a>
-&mdash; an async <code>sendfile()</code> for windows.
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741565(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>WSADuplicateSocket()</code></a>
-&mdash; describes how to share a socket between two processes.
-<li id="setmaxstdio"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6e3b887c.aspx"><code>_setmaxstdio()</code></a>
-&mdash; something like setting the maximum number of file decriptors
-and <a
-  href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/setrlimit.2.html"><code>setrlimit(3)</code></a>
-AKA <code>ulimit -n</code>. Note the file descriptor limit on windows is
-2048.
-</ul>
-<p>
-APC:
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681951(v=vs.85).aspx">Asynchronous Procedure Calls</a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682016"><code>DNSQuery()</code></a>
-&mdash; General purpose DNS query function like <code>res_query()</code> on Unix.
-</ul>
-Pipes:
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365781(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>Pipe functions</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx"><code>CreateNamedPipe</code></a>
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365144(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>CallNamedPipe</code></a>
-&mdash; like <code>accept</code> is for Unix pipes.
-<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365146(v=VS.85).aspx"><code>ConnectNamedPipe</code></a>
-</ul>
-<code>WaitForMultipleObjectsEx</code> is pronounced "wait for multiple object sex".
-Also useful:
-<a
-  href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xw1ew2f8(v=vs.80).aspx">Introduction
-  to Visual C++ for Unix Users</a>
-<br><br>
-<a
-  href="http://ebookbrowse.com/network-programming-for-microsoft-windows-2nd-edition-2002-pdf-d73663829">Network
-  Programming For Microsoft Windows 2nd Edition 2002</a>. Juicy details on
-page 119.
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