I am opening a serial port using CreateFile(). I've got a testcase (too complicated to redistribute) that consistently causes CreateFile() to return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE and GetLastError() to retur...

In the new 0.5.1 branch, there is an official Windows executable of Node.js. The Linux version of Node.js uses established libraries such as v8, libev, libeio. Since libev and libeio is for ...

I am having some trouble implementing TCP IOCP client. I have implemented kqueue on Mac OSX so was looking to do something similar on windows and my understanding is that IOCP is the closest thing....

Why do many people say I/O completion port is a fast and nice model? What are the I/O completion port's advantages and disadvantages? I want to know some points which make the I/O completion port f...

Is there such a thing? It needs to be asynchronous (no Indy).

It's very hard to find detailed but simple description of worker and I/O threads in .NET What's clear to me regarding this topic (but may not be technically precise): Worker threads are threads ...

I'm porting a c++ app to c# that uses IOCP on it's server. Can mono handle IOCP as well as windows? will i get comparable performance to c++ or i should try something else? thanks