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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000 |
| commit | 26a029d407be480d791972afb5975cf62c9360a6 (patch) | |
| tree | f435a8308119effd964b339f76abb83a57c29483 /xpcom/threads/nsISerialEventTarget.idl | |
| parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 124.0.1.upstream/124.0.1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/xpcom/threads/nsISerialEventTarget.idl b/xpcom/threads/nsISerialEventTarget.idl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9cc8ff9066 --- /dev/null +++ b/xpcom/threads/nsISerialEventTarget.idl @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ +/* vim:set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et cindent: */ +/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ + +#include "nsIEventTarget.idl" + +/** + * A serial event target is an event dispatching interface like + * nsIEventTarget. Runnables dispatched to an nsISerialEventTarget are required + * to execute serially. That is, two different runnables dispatched to the + * target should never be allowed to execute simultaneously. One exception to + * this rule is nested event loops. If a runnable spins a nested event loop, + * causing another runnable dispatched to the target to run, the target may + * still be considered "serial". + * + * Examples: + * - nsIThread is a serial event target. + * - Thread pools are not serial event targets. + * - However, one can "convert" a thread pool into an nsISerialEventTarget + * by putting a TaskQueue in front of it. + */ +[builtinclass, scriptable, rust_sync, uuid(9f982380-24b4-49f3-88f6-45e2952036c7)] +interface nsISerialEventTarget : nsIEventTarget +{ +}; |