Cancels all pending input and output (I/O) operations that are issued by the calling thread for the specified file. The function does not cancel I/O operations that other threads issue for a file handle.

To cancel I/O operations from another thread, use the CancelIoEx function.

Syntax

BOOL WINAPI CancelIo(
  __in  HANDLE hFile
);

Parameters

hFile [in]

A handle to the file.

The function cancels all pending I/O operations for this file handle.

Return Value

If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero. The cancel operation for all pending I/O operations issued by the calling thread for the specified file handle was successfully requested. The thread can use the GetOverlappedResult function to determine when the I/O operations themselves have been completed.

If the function fails, the return value is zero (0). To get extended error information, call the GetLastError function.

Remarks

If there are any pending I/O operations in progress for the specified file handle, and they are issued by the calling thread, the CancelIo function cancels them. CancelIO cancels only outstanding I/O on the handle, it does not change the state of the handle; this means that you cannot rely on the state of the handle because you cannot know whether the operation was completed successfully or canceled.

The I/O operations must be issued as overlapped I/O. If they are not, the I/O operations do not return to allow the thread to call the CancelIo function. Calling the CancelIo function with a file handle that is not opened with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED does nothing.

All I/O operations that are canceled complete with the error ERROR_OPERATION_ABORTED, and all completion notifications for the I/O operations occur normally.

Requirements

See Also

CancelIoEx

CancelSynchronousIo

CreateFile

DeviceIoControl

File Management Functions

LockFileEx

ReadDirectoryChangesW

ReadFile

ReadFileEx

Synchronous and Asynchronous I/O

WriteFile

WriteFileEx

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