Revert "Use async file handle for better parallelism (#1049)" (#1105)

This reverts commit b54c347424.

Revert async file handle change as it causes failures with appveyor

port/win/env_win.cc

@@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ SSIZE_T pwrite(HANDLE hFile, const char* src, size_t numBytes,
 }
 
 // See comments for pwrite above
-// PLEASE NOTE: hFile is expected to be an async handle 
-// (i.e. opened with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED)
 SSIZE_T pread(HANDLE hFile, char* src, size_t numBytes, uint64_t offset) {
   assert(numBytes <= std::numeric_limits<DWORD>::max());
   OVERLAPPED overlapped = {0};
@@ -134,32 +132,17 @@ SSIZE_T pread(HANDLE hFile, char* src, size_t numBytes, uint64_t offset) {
 
   overlapped.Offset = offsetUnion.LowPart;
   overlapped.OffsetHigh = offsetUnion.HighPart;
-  overlapped.hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL);
-
-  if (NULL == overlapped.hEvent) {
-    return -1;
-  }
 
   SSIZE_T result = 0;
 
   unsigned long bytesRead = 0;
-  DWORD lastError = ERROR_SUCCESS;
 
-  if ((FALSE == ReadFile(hFile, src, static_cast<DWORD>(numBytes), &bytesRead,
-    &overlapped)) && ((lastError = GetLastError()) != ERROR_IO_PENDING)) {
-    result = (lastError == ERROR_HANDLE_EOF) ? 0 : -1;
+  if (FALSE == ReadFile(hFile, src, static_cast<DWORD>(numBytes), &bytesRead,
+    &overlapped)) {
+    return -1;
   } else {
-    if (lastError == ERROR_IO_PENDING) { //otherwise bytesRead already has the result
-      if (FALSE == GetOverlappedResult(hFile, &overlapped, &bytesRead, TRUE)) {
-        result = (GetLastError() == ERROR_HANDLE_EOF) ? 0 : -1;
-      }
-      else {
     result = bytesRead;
   }
-    }
-  }
-
-  CloseHandle(overlapped.hEvent);
 
   return result;
 }
@@ -701,8 +684,6 @@ class WinSequentialFile : public SequentialFile {
 // pread() based random-access
 class WinRandomAccessFile : public RandomAccessFile {
   const std::string filename_;
-  // PLEASE NOTE: hFile is expected to be an async handle 
-  // (i.e. opened with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED)
   HANDLE hFile_;
   const bool use_os_buffer_;
   bool read_ahead_;
@@ -1244,12 +1225,6 @@ class WinEnv : public Env {
       fileFlags |= FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS;
     }
 
-    if (!options.use_mmap_reads) {
-      // Open in async mode which makes Windows allow more parallelism even
-      // if we need to do sync I/O on top of it.
-      fileFlags |= FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED;
-    }
-
     /// Shared access is necessary for corruption test to pass
     // almost all tests would work with a possible exception of fault_injection
     HANDLE hFile = 0;