Porting Toolkit to Symbian. It should work while some sporadic

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

diff --git a/lib/silcutil/silcthread.h b/lib/silcutil/silcthread.h
index cbc072bdfd663429350d4b718fe9bdaf4e4a78c9..3a4036f6459ee1c5a3d8a0742fe6fd3f8bf80ab1 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/silcutil/silcthread.h
+++ b/lib/silcutil/silcthread.h
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 /*
 
   silcmutex.h
- 
+
   Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@silcnet.org>
- 
-  Copyright (C) 2001 Pekka Riikonen
- 
+
+  Copyright (C) 2001 - 2005 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
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-  (at your option) any later version.
- 
+  the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+
   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
@@ -18,13 +17,13 @@
 
 */
 
-/****h* silcutil/SilcThreadAPI
+/****h* silcutil/SILC Thread Interface
  *
  * DESCRIPTION
  *
  * Interface for SILC Thread implementation. This is platform independent
  * interface of threads for applications that need concurrent execution
- * with the application's main thread. The threads created with this 
+ * with the application's main thread. The threads created with this
  * interface executes concurrently with the calling thread.
  *
  ***/
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@
 /****s* silcutil/SilcThreadAPI/SilcThread
  *
  * NAME
- * 
+ *
  *    typedef struct SilcThreadStruct *SilcThread;
  *
  * DESCRIPTION
@@ -72,8 +71,8 @@ typedef void *(*SilcThreadStart)(void *context);
  *
  * SYNOPSIS
  *
- *    SilcThread silc_thread_create(SilcThreadStart start_func, void *context);
- *
+ *    SilcThread silc_thread_create(SilcThreadStart start_func,
+ *                                  void *context, SilcBool waitable);
  * DESCRIPTION
  *
  *    Creates a new thread. The `start_func' with `context' will be
@@ -93,9 +92,13 @@ typedef void *(*SilcThreadStart)(void *context);
  *    If the `waitable' is TRUE then another thread must always issue
  *    silc_thread_wait to avoid memory leaks.
  *
+ *    On Symbian Cleanup Stack is created and new Active Scheduler is
+ *    installed automatically for the created thread.  The thread also
+ *    shares heap with the calling thread.
+ *
  ***/
 SilcThread silc_thread_create(SilcThreadStart start_func, void *context,
-                             bool waitable);
+                             SilcBool waitable);
 
 /****f* silcutil/SilcThreadAPI/silc_thread_exit
  *
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ SilcThread silc_thread_self(void);
  *
  * SYNOPSIS
  *
- *    bool silc_thread_wait(SilcThread thread, void **exit_value);
+ *    SilcBool silc_thread_wait(SilcThread thread, void **exit_value);
  *
  * DESCRIPTION
  *
@@ -143,6 +146,20 @@ SilcThread silc_thread_self(void);
  *    FALSE value.
  *
  ***/
-bool silc_thread_wait(SilcThread thread, void **exit_value);
+SilcBool silc_thread_wait(SilcThread thread, void **exit_value);
+
+/****f* silcutil/SilcThreadAPI/silc_thread_yield
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ *    void silc_thread_yield(void);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ *    Yield the processor.  The calling thread will yield the processor and
+ *    give execution time for other threads, until its turn comes up again.
+ *
+ ***/
+void silc_thread_yield(void);
 
 #endif