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/*
 * emulate POSIX asynchronous I/O on Windows.
 */

#ifndef INCLUDED_WAIO
#define INCLUDED_WAIO

#include "lib/status.h"
#include "lib/os_path.h"
#include "lib/posix/posix_time.h"   // timespec
#include "lib/sysdep/os/win/wposix/wposix_types.h"

// Note: transfer buffers, offsets, and lengths must be sector-aligned
// (we don't bother copying to an align buffer because our block cache
// already requires splitting IOs into naturally-aligned blocks)


//
// <signal.h>
//

union sigval    // unused
{
    int sival_int;              // Integer signal value.
    void* sival_ptr;            // Pointer signal value.
};

struct sigevent // unused
{
    int sigev_notify;           // notification mode
    int sigev_signo;            // signal number
    union sigval sigev_value;   // signal value
    void (*sigev_notify_function)(union sigval);
};


//
// <aio.h>
//

struct aiocb
{
    int             aio_fildes;     // File descriptor.
    off_t           aio_offset;     // File offset.
    volatile void*  aio_buf;        // Location of buffer.
    size_t          aio_nbytes;     // Length of transfer.
    int             aio_reqprio;    // Request priority offset. (unused)
    struct sigevent aio_sigevent;   // Signal number and value. (unused)
    int             aio_lio_opcode; // Operation to be performed.

    // internal use only; must be zero-initialized before
    // calling the first aio_read/aio_write/lio_listio
    // (aio_return resets it to 0)
    void* ovl;
};

enum
{
    // aio_cancel return
    AIO_ALLDONE,     // None of the requested operations could be canceled since they are already complete.
    AIO_CANCELED,    // All requested operations have been canceled.
    AIO_NOTCANCELED, // Some of the requested operations could not be canceled since they are in progress.

    // lio_listio mode
    LIO_WAIT,        // wait until all I/O is complete
    LIO_NOWAIT,

    // lio_listio ops
    LIO_NOP,
    LIO_READ,
    LIO_WRITE
};

extern int aio_read(struct aiocb*);
extern int aio_write(struct aiocb*);
extern int lio_listio(int, struct aiocb* const[], int, struct sigevent*);

// (if never called, IOCP notifications will pile up.)
extern int aio_suspend(const struct aiocb* const[], int, const struct timespec*);

// @return status of transfer (0 or an errno)
extern int aio_error(const struct aiocb*);

// @return bytes transferred or -1 on error.
// frees internal storage related to the request and MUST be called
// exactly once for each aiocb after aio_error != EINPROGRESS.
extern ssize_t aio_return(struct aiocb*);

extern int aio_cancel(int, struct aiocb*);

extern int aio_fsync(int, struct aiocb*);

// open the file for aio (not possible via _wsopen_s since it cannot
// set FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING).
//
// @return the smallest available file descriptor. NB: these numbers
// are not 0-based to avoid confusion with lowio descriptors and
// must only be used with waio functions.
extern Status waio_open(const OsPath& pathname, int oflag, ...);

extern Status waio_close(int fd);

// call this before writing a large file to preallocate clusters, thus
// reducing fragmentation.
//
// @param fd file descriptor from _wsopen_s OR waio_open
// @param size is rounded up to a multiple of maxSectorSize (required by
// SetEndOfFile; this could be avoided by using the undocumented
// NtSetInformationFile or SetFileInformationByHandle on Vista and later).
// use wtruncate after I/O is complete to chop off the excess padding.
//
// NB: writes that extend a file (i.e. ALL WRITES when creating new files)
// are synchronous, which prevents overlapping I/O and other work.
// (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B156932)
// if Windows XP and the SE_MANAGE_VOLUME_NAME privileges are available,
// this function sets the valid data length to avoid the synchronous zero-fill.
// to avoid exposing the previous disk contents until the application
// successfully writes to the file, deny sharing when opening the file.
LIB_API Status waio_Preallocate(int fd, off_t size);

#endif  // #ifndef INCLUDED_WAIO