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+/*
+   Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
+   Regular background jobs as forked helpers
+   Copyright (C) Volker Lendecke 2012
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+#ifndef _LIB_BACKGROUND_H_
+#define _LIB_BACKGROUND_H_
+
+#include "replace.h"
+#include <tevent.h>
+#include "libcli/util/ntstatus.h"
+
+struct messaging_context;
+
+/*
+ * From a parent process regularly fork a process and execute fn(). fn()
+ * returns the number of seconds to wait before it is run next time. Returning
+ * -1 means stop the job.
+ */
+
+struct tevent_req *background_job_send(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+				       struct tevent_context *ev,
+				       struct messaging_context *msg,
+				       uint32_t *trigger_msgs,
+				       size_t num_trigger_msgs,
+				       time_t initial_wait_sec,
+				       int (*fn)(void *private_data),
+				       void *private_data);
+NTSTATUS background_job_recv(struct tevent_req *req);
+
+#endif