Hi all,

This is a follow-up to the message I wrote a message yesterday with the subject “Wine and IrDA via Virtual Com Port”, although that wasn’t a good subject for the problem. 

The software that I have is using Overlapped (asynchronous) I/O for communication of an IR port.  The software makes WriteFile(), ReadFile(), and GetOverlappedResult() calls.  However, before making any of the calls, the software does NOT initialize the hEvent member of the OVERLAPPED structure that is passed to the functions (it just zeroes the entire structure).  Apparently the Win32 implementation of this is OK, but it is pretty obvious that the Wine implementation will not work with hEvent == 0.

Now, I’m not saying that the Wine implementation is wrong, because based on the MSDN documentation, that value should be set to a valid event handle;  however, the behavior is fundamentally different from the native Win32 environment, which in my case, leads to undesirable results.  Is this something that I could feasibly fix in Wine, or would it be better to try to change the implementation of the software?

Does anyone have any experience with this part of Wine?  Thanks.

-- Ryan

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