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Source/charon/thread_pool.h

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+/**
+ * @file worker.h
+ * 
+ * @brief worker thread, gets jobs form job_queue
+ * 
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Hutter, Martin Willi
+ * 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 THREAD_POOL_H_
+#define THREAD_POOL_H_
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "types.h"
+
+/**
+ * A thread_pool contains a pool of threads processing the job queue
+ */
+typedef struct thread_pool_s thread_pool_t;
+
+struct thread_pool_s {
+	/**
+	 * Stops process after processing current job
+	 * 
+	 * @param thread_pool	thread_pool_t object
+	 * @param size [out]	size of pool				
+	 * @return				SUCCESS		Thread flagged for termination
+	 */
+	status_t (*get_pool_size) (thread_pool_t *thread_pool, size_t *pool_size);
+	/**
+	 * Destroy pool, blocks until threads cleanly terminated
+	 * 
+	 * @param thread_pool	thread_pool_t object
+	 * @return				SUCCESS
+	 */
+	status_t (*destroy) (thread_pool_t *thread_pool);
+};
+
+/**
+ * @brief Create the thread pool using using pool_size of threads
+ * 
+ * @param			pool_size	desired pool size
+ * @return 			NULL		when no thread could be created
+ * 					thread_pool	when one ore more threads could be created
+ */
+thread_pool_t *thread_pool_create(size_t pool_size);
+
+
+#endif /*THREAD_POOL_H_*/