Added SILC Thread Queue API

[silc.git] / lib / silcutil / silcmime.h

diff --git a/lib/silcutil/silcmime.h b/lib/silcutil/silcmime.h
index 653a662527441626f3a110efbd2fa663cd218279..664b526a06adbaaa137947327282a30b437c5edc 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/silcutil/silcmime.h
+++ b/lib/silcutil/silcmime.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
   Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@silcnet.org>
 
-  Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Pekka Riikonen
+  Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Pekka Riikonen
 
   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
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
  * MIME messages, multipart MIME messages, including nested multiparts, and
  * MIME fragmentation and defragmentation.
  *
+ * SILC Mime API is not thread-safe.  If the same MIME context must be
+ * used in multithreaded environment concurrency control must be employed.
+ *
  ***/
 
 #ifndef SILCMIME_H
@@ -68,7 +71,8 @@ typedef struct SilcMimeAssemblerStruct *SilcMimeAssembler;
  *
  * DESCRIPTION
  *
- *    Allocates SILC Mime message context.
+ *    Allocates SILC Mime message context.  Returns NULL if system is out of
+ *    memory.
  *
  ***/
 SilcMime silc_mime_alloc(void);
@@ -94,7 +98,8 @@ void silc_mime_free(SilcMime mime);
  *
  * DESCRIPTION
  *
- *    Allocates MIME fragment assembler.
+ *    Allocates MIME fragment assembler.  Returns NULL if system is out of
+ *    memory.
  *
  ***/
 SilcMimeAssembler silc_mime_assembler_alloc(void);
@@ -112,6 +117,29 @@ SilcMimeAssembler silc_mime_assembler_alloc(void);
  ***/
 void silc_mime_assembler_free(SilcMimeAssembler assembler);
 
+/****f* silcutil/SILCMIMEAPI/silc_mime_assembler_purge
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ *    void silc_mime_assembler_purge(SilcMimeAssembler assembler,
+ *                                   SilcUInt32 purge_minutes);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ *    Purges the MIME fragment assembler from old fragments that have never
+ *    completed into a full MIME message.  This function may be called
+ *    periodically to purge MIME fragments.  The `purge_minutes' specify
+ *    how old fragments are purged.  If it is 0, fragments older than 5 minutes
+ *    are purged, by default.  The value is in minutes.
+ *
+ *    It is usefull to call this periodically to assure that memory is not
+ *    consumed needlessly by keeping old unfinished fragments in a long
+ *    running assembler.
+ *
+ ***/
+void silc_mime_assembler_purge(SilcMimeAssembler assembler,
+                              SilcUInt32 purge_minutes);
+
 /****f* silcutil/SILCMIMEAPI/silc_mime_decode
  *
  * SYNOPSIS
@@ -173,7 +201,7 @@ unsigned char *silc_mime_encode(SilcMime mime, SilcUInt32 *encoded_len);
  *
  *    Processes and attempts to assemble the received MIME fragment `partial'.
  *    To check if a received MIME message is a fragment use the
- *    silc_mime_is_partial function.  Returns NULL if all fragments has not
+ *    silc_mime_is_partial function.  Returns NULL if all fragments have not
  *    yet been received, or the newly allocated completed MIME message if
  *    all fragments were received.  The caller must free the returned
  *    SilcMime context.  The caller must not free the `partial'.