Add overlapped (asynchronous file read/writes) to WinAPI #664
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Asynchronous fileio has some limitations ref
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/previous-versions/troubleshoot/windows/win32/asynchronous-disk-io-synchronous and
JayFoxRox#45
Asynchronous file read/writes have these requirements generally:
If these are not met the request will either fail or complete synchronously
Overlapped structure members seemed a bit odd to me when I initially looked at this but this was my reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ns-minwinbase-overlapped
Some test code below which demonstrates async read and write as per win32 docs