SetFileCompletionNotificationModes API causes an I/O completion port not to work correctly if a non-IFS LSP is installed

Some applications may conflict with non-IFS Winsock Base Service Providers (BSPs) or Layered Service Providers (LSPs). An application creates an I/O completion port and associates it with a socket, and calls SetFileCompletionNotificationModes with the FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS flag on the socket handle. For any subsequent asynchronous Winsock calls on that socket that have an OVERLAPPED structure passed, the application will not experience completions for those Winsock function calls over the associated I/O completion port.

Note This issue affects only applications that run in Windows Vista and higher version because this new IOCP flag (FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS) was added in Vista.

Non-IFS Winsock BSPs or LSPs are not compatible with the FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS flag. The incompatibility results in any asynchronous Winsock calls that are used by the socket and have OVERLAPPED passed not to work correctly when non-IFS Winsock BSPs or LSPs have been installed. All Winsock BSPs supplied by Microsoft use IFS handles and third-party BSPs are very uncommon. So this problem is caused primarily by having non-IFS LSPs installed.

To resolve this problem, use one of the following methods:

• do not specify the FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS flag
• Remove any installed non-IFS Winsock LSPs.
• Move from a non-IFS LSP to Windows Filter Platform (WFP).

To determine whether a non-IFS BSP or LSP is installed, use the "netsh WinSock Show Catalog" command, and examine every Winsock Catalog Provider Entry item that is returned. If the Service Flags value has the 0x20000 bit set, the provider uses IFS handles and will work correctly. If the 0x20000 bit is clear (not set), it is a non-IFS BSP or LSP. To programmatically determine whether a non-IFS BSP or LSP is installed, enumerate the available protocols by using the WSCEnumerateProtocols function. Then, in each returned WSAPROTOCOL_INFO structure, check the dwServiceFlag1 member to see whether the XP1_IFS_HANDLES flag (0x20000) is set. The Windows SDK documentation for the WSCEnumProtocols function includes source code for an example program that shows how to do this. 

Notes

• The Service Flags value was introduced in the netsh command in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Therefore,using the netsh command to check this value doesn't work in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.
• The WSCEnumerateProtocols function can be used to retrieve WSAPROTOCOL_INFOW structures and the dwServiceFlag1 member to discover whether IFS/non-IFS BSPs or LSPs are installed. The WSCEnumerateProtocols function is supported in Windows 2000 and higher versions.