use gettimeofday() instead of clock_gettime() as the latter lives in librt which...

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / thread.h

diff --git a/include/wx/thread.h b/include/wx/thread.h
index 036b3d0adb60364feb2d3b7c082c0bd2dadd7c52..b95652dcac498f158f0c4c7e7503e492064cc16a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/thread.h
+++ b/include/wx/thread.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum wxMutexError
     wxMUTEX_DEAD_LOCK,      // mutex is already locked by the calling thread
     wxMUTEX_BUSY,           // mutex is already locked by another thread
     wxMUTEX_UNLOCKED,       // attempt to unlock a mutex which is not locked
+    wxMUTEX_TIMEOUT,        // LockTimeout() has timed out
     wxMUTEX_MISC_ERROR      // any other error
 };
 
@@ -149,6 +150,10 @@ public:
     // The caller must call Unlock() later if Lock() returned wxMUTEX_NO_ERROR.
     wxMutexError Lock();
 
+    // Same as Lock() but return wxMUTEX_TIMEOUT if the mutex can't be locked
+    // during the given number of milliseconds
+    wxMutexError LockTimeout(unsigned long ms);
+
     // Try to lock the mutex: if it is currently locked, return immediately
     // with an error. Otherwise the caller must call Unlock().
     wxMutexError TryLock();