Merge from camel-mt-branch.

2000-12-24  Not Zed  <NotZed@HelixCode.com>

        * Merge from camel-mt-branch.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=7152

1 files changed, 79 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/e-util/e-msgport.h b/e-util/e-msgport.h
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+
+#ifndef _E_MSGPORT_H
+#define _E_MSGPORT_H
+
+/* double-linked list yeah another one, deal */
+typedef struct _EDListNode {
+	struct _EDListNode *next;
+	struct _EDListNode *prev;
+} EDListNode;
+
+typedef struct _EDList {
+	struct _EDListNode *head;
+	struct _EDListNode *tail;
+	struct _EDListNode *tailpred;
+} EDList;
+
+void e_dlist_init(EDList *v);
+EDListNode *e_dlist_addhead(EDList *l, EDListNode *n);
+EDListNode *e_dlist_addtail(EDList *l, EDListNode *n);
+EDListNode *e_dlist_remove(EDListNode *n);
+EDListNode *e_dlist_remhead(EDList *l);
+EDListNode *e_dlist_remtail(EDList *l);
+int e_dlist_empty(EDList *l);
+int e_dlist_length(EDList *l);
+
+/* message ports - a simple inter-thread 'ipc' primitive */
+/* opaque handle */
+typedef struct _EMsgPort EMsgPort;
+
+/* header for any message */
+typedef struct _EMsg {
+	EDListNode ln;
+	EMsgPort *reply_port;
+} EMsg;
+
+EMsgPort *e_msgport_new(void);
+void e_msgport_destroy(EMsgPort *mp);
+/* get a fd that can be used to wait on the port asynchronously */
+int e_msgport_fd(EMsgPort *mp);
+void e_msgport_put(EMsgPort *mp, EMsg *msg);
+EMsg *e_msgport_wait(EMsgPort *mp);
+EMsg *e_msgport_get(EMsgPort *mp);
+void e_msgport_reply(EMsg *msg);
+
+/* e threads, a server thread with a message based request-response, and flexible queuing */
+typedef struct _EThread EThread;
+
+typedef enum {
+	E_THREAD_QUEUE = 0,	/* run one by one, until done, if the queue_limit is reached, discard new request */
+	E_THREAD_DROP,		/* run one by one, until done, if the queue_limit is reached, discard oldest requests */
+	E_THREAD_NEW,		/* always run in a new thread, if the queue limit is reached, new requests are
+				   stored in the queue until a thread becomes available for it, creating a thread pool */
+} e_thread_t;
+
+typedef void (*EThreadFunc)(EThread *, EMsg *, void *data);
+
+EThread *e_thread_new(e_thread_t type);
+void e_thread_destroy(EThread *e);
+void e_thread_set_queue_limit(EThread *e, int limit);
+void e_thread_set_msg_lost(EThread *e, EThreadFunc destroy, void *data);
+void e_thread_set_msg_destroy(EThread *e, EThreadFunc destroy, void *data);
+void e_thread_set_reply_port(EThread *e, EMsgPort *reply_port);
+void e_thread_set_msg_received(EThread *e, EThreadFunc received, void *data);
+void e_thread_put(EThread *e, EMsg *msg);
+
+/* sigh, another mutex interface, this one allows different mutex types, portably */
+typedef struct _EMutex EMutex;
+
+typedef enum _e_mutex_t {
+	E_MUTEX_SIMPLE,		/* == pthread_mutex */
+	E_MUTEX_REC,		/* recursive mutex */
+} e_mutex_t;
+
+EMutex *e_mutex_new(e_mutex_t type);
+int e_mutex_destroy(EMutex *m);
+int e_mutex_lock(EMutex *m);
+int e_mutex_unlock(EMutex *m);
+
+#endif