using socket with the overlapped operation selected the event-based completion notification; Have 2 events, one for data, the other to cancel long send/recv:
HANDLE events[] = { m_hDataEvent, m_hInterruptEvent };
then calling WSASend,
WSASend(m_Socket, &DataBuf, 1, NULL, 0, &SendOverlapped, NULL);
followed by
WSAWaitForMultipleEvents(2, events, FALSE, INFINITE, FALSE);
which is setup to return on any one event signaled. Now assume send is in progress, and m_hInterruptEvent is signaled. WSAWaitForMultipleEvents returns, technically the function calling send can return as well and delete internally allocated buffers.
What is not clear to me, the WSASend may still be working in background, and deleting buffers will cause data corruption in best case.
What would be the proper way to stop the background Send/Receive, if the socket needs to be used for something else immediately?
I looked at the CancelIO(), but the MSDN never mentions it in relation to Sockets, does it work with file based IO only?