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34
35#ifndef prcvar_h___
36#define prcvar_h___
37
38#include <security_asn1/prlock.h>
39#include <security_asn1/prinrval.h>
40
41PR_BEGIN_EXTERN_C
42
43typedef struct PRCondVar PRCondVar;
44
45/*
46** Create a new condition variable.
47**
48** "lock" is the lock used to protect the condition variable.
49**
50** Condition variables are synchronization objects that threads can use
51** to wait for some condition to occur.
52**
53** This may fail if memory is tight or if some operating system resource
54** is low. In such cases, a NULL will be returned.
55*/
56NSPR_API(PRCondVar*) PR_NewCondVar(PRLock *lock);
57
58/*
59** Destroy a condition variable. There must be no thread
60** waiting on the condvar. The caller is responsible for guaranteeing
61** that the condvar is no longer in use.
62**
63*/
64NSPR_API(void) PR_DestroyCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar);
65
66/*
67** The thread that waits on a condition is blocked in a "waiting on
68** condition" state until another thread notifies the condition or a
69** caller specified amount of time expires. The lock associated with
70** the condition variable will be released, which must have be held
71** prior to the call to wait.
72**
73** Logically a notified thread is moved from the "waiting on condition"
74** state and made "ready." When scheduled, it will attempt to reacquire
75** the lock that it held when wait was called.
76**
77** The timeout has two well known values, PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT and
78** PR_INTERVAL_NO_WAIT. The former value requires that a condition be
79** notified (or the thread interrupted) before it will resume from the
80** wait. If the timeout has a value of PR_INTERVAL_NO_WAIT, the effect
81** is to release the lock, possibly causing a rescheduling within the
82** runtime, then immediately attempting to reacquire the lock and resume.
83**
84** Any other value for timeout will cause the thread to be rescheduled
85** either due to explicit notification or an expired interval. The latter
86** must be determined by treating time as one part of the monitored data
87** being protected by the lock and tested explicitly for an expired
88** interval.
89**
90** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated
91** with the condition variable or the thread was interrupted (PR_Interrupt()).
92** The particular reason can be extracted with PR_GetError().
93*/
94NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_WaitCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar, PRIntervalTime timeout);
95
96/*
97** Notify ONE thread that is currently waiting on 'cvar'. Which thread is
98** dependent on the implementation of the runtime. Common sense would dictate
99** that all threads waiting on a single condition have identical semantics,
100** therefore which one gets notified is not significant.
101**
102** The calling thead must hold the lock that protects the condition, as
103** well as the invariants that are tightly bound to the condition, when
104** notify is called.
105**
106** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated
107** with the condition variable.
108*/
109NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_NotifyCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar);
110
111/*
112** Notify all of the threads waiting on the condition variable. The order
113** that the threads are notified is indeterminant. The lock that protects
114** the condition must be held.
115**
116** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated
117** with the condition variable.
118*/
119NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_NotifyAllCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar);
120
121PR_END_EXTERN_C
122
123#endif /* prcvar_h___ */