What sense does asynchronous IO make if the thread is blocked anyway (see example)
- by codymanix
Hello, I found an example for async ftp upload on msdn which does the following (snippet):
// Asynchronously get the stream for the file contents.
request.BeginGetRequestStream(
new AsyncCallback (EndGetStreamCallback),
state
);
// Block the current thread until all operations are complete.
waitObject.WaitOne();
The thing what I do not understand here is, which sense does asynchronous IO make if the thread is blocked anyway with an explicit waithandle. I always thought the advantage of asynchronous IO was that the user/programm does not have to wait.
