Kevin Brown wrote: > I have no idea whether or not this approach would work in Windows.
The win32 API has ReadFileScatter/WriteFileScatter, which was developed to handle these types of problems. These two functions were added for the sole purpose of making SQL server run faster. They are always asynchronous and are very efficient. Perhaps the win32 port could just deal with the synchronization with an eye for future optimizations down the line? Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly