/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* 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/. */ #ifndef prcvar_h___ #define prcvar_h___ #include "prlock.h" #include "prinrval.h" PR_BEGIN_EXTERN_C typedef struct PRCondVar PRCondVar; /* ** Create a new condition variable. ** ** "lock" is the lock used to protect the condition variable. ** ** Condition variables are synchronization objects that threads can use ** to wait for some condition to occur. ** ** This may fail if memory is tight or if some operating system resource ** is low. In such cases, a NULL will be returned. */ NSPR_API(PRCondVar*) PR_NewCondVar(PRLock *lock); /* ** Destroy a condition variable. There must be no thread ** waiting on the condvar. The caller is responsible for guaranteeing ** that the condvar is no longer in use. ** */ NSPR_API(void) PR_DestroyCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar); /* ** The thread that waits on a condition is blocked in a "waiting on ** condition" state until another thread notifies the condition or a ** caller specified amount of time expires. The lock associated with ** the condition variable will be released, which must have be held ** prior to the call to wait. ** ** Logically a notified thread is moved from the "waiting on condition" ** state and made "ready." When scheduled, it will attempt to reacquire ** the lock that it held when wait was called. ** ** The timeout has two well known values, PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT and ** PR_INTERVAL_NO_WAIT. The former value requires that a condition be ** notified (or the thread interrupted) before it will resume from the ** wait. If the timeout has a value of PR_INTERVAL_NO_WAIT, the effect ** is to release the lock, possibly causing a rescheduling within the ** runtime, then immediately attempting to reacquire the lock and resume. ** ** Any other value for timeout will cause the thread to be rescheduled ** either due to explicit notification or an expired interval. The latter ** must be determined by treating time as one part of the monitored data ** being protected by the lock and tested explicitly for an expired ** interval. ** ** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated ** with the condition variable or the thread was interrupted (PR_Interrupt()). ** The particular reason can be extracted with PR_GetError(). */ NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_WaitCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar, PRIntervalTime timeout); /* ** Notify ONE thread that is currently waiting on 'cvar'. Which thread is ** dependent on the implementation of the runtime. Common sense would dictate ** that all threads waiting on a single condition have identical semantics, ** therefore which one gets notified is not significant. ** ** The calling thead must hold the lock that protects the condition, as ** well as the invariants that are tightly bound to the condition, when ** notify is called. ** ** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated ** with the condition variable. */ NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_NotifyCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar); /* ** Notify all of the threads waiting on the condition variable. The order ** that the threads are notified is indeterminant. The lock that protects ** the condition must be held. ** ** Returns PR_FAILURE if the caller has not locked the lock associated ** with the condition variable. */ NSPR_API(PRStatus) PR_NotifyAllCondVar(PRCondVar *cvar); PR_END_EXTERN_C #endif /* prcvar_h___ */