what is Synchronous file access?

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From: Manoj (Manoj_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:43:01 -0800

  hai,
    it is heard that " To minimize the size of the filesys component,windows
ce only support Synchronous file acess,This is the reason why overlapped I/O
is not supported...
      can anyone explain what is this synchronous file access and overlapped
i/o..
The statement implies that other windows os have both asynchronous access
and overlapped i/o....
       Does it mean in the following way..

asynchronous => means multiple file access can be done..overlapped i/o is
the same,isn't it...otherwise tell me

Expecting ur early responce

thanking u

        

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