strongswan/src/charon/processing/scheduler.h

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/**
* @file scheduler.h
*
* @brief Interface of scheduler_t.
*
*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Martin Willi
* Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Hutter
* Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
*
* 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. See <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
*
* 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.
*/
#ifndef SCHEDULER_H_
#define SCHEDULER_H_
typedef struct scheduler_t scheduler_t;
#include <library.h>
/**
* @brief The scheduler thread is responsible for timed events.
*
* The scheduler thread takes out jobs from the event-queue and adds them
* to the job-queue.
*
* Starts a thread which does the work, since event-queue is blocking.
*
* @b Constructors:
* - scheduler_create()
*
* @ingroup processing
*/
struct scheduler_t {
/**
* @brief Destroys a scheduler object.
*
* @param scheduler calling object
*/
void (*destroy) (scheduler_t *scheduler);
};
/**
* @brief Create a scheduler with its associated thread.
*
* The thread will start to get jobs form the event queue
* and adds them to the job queue.
*
* @return
* - scheduler_t object
* - NULL if thread could not be started
*
* @ingroup processing
*/
scheduler_t * scheduler_create(void);
#endif /*SCHEDULER_H_*/