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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