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| author | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2018-03-22 14:06:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2018-03-22 14:06:07 -0700 |
| commit | 53d5c2766d90a53d3f6c0437bc59c1ad63ec701a (patch) | |
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| parent | 1dc090d39eded06eee7725bd507599d8f59a3379 (diff) | |
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Add documentation for supplemental functions.
This includes platform portability stuff like mutexes and threads,
etc. While here we fixed a problem with nng_opts_parse and we
addressed the type of the platform API.
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diff --git a/docs/man/nng_cv_until.3supp.adoc b/docs/man/nng_cv_until.3supp.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d39ecc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/man/nng_cv_until.3supp.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ += nng_cv_until(3supp) +// +// Copyright 2018 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech> +// Copyright 2018 Capitar IT Group BV <info@capitar.com> +// +// This document is supplied under the terms of the MIT License, a +// copy of which should be located in the distribution where this +// file was obtained (LICENSE.txt). A copy of the license may also be +// found online at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. +// + +== NAME + +nng_cv_until - wait for condition or timeout + +== SYNOPSIS + +[source, c] +---- +#include <nng/nng.h> +#include <nng/supplemental/util/platform.h> + +int nng_cv_wait(nng_cv *cv, nng_time when); +---- + +== DESCRIPTION + +The `nng_cv_until()` waits until either the condition variable _cv_ is signaled +by another thread calling either <<nng_cv_wake.3supp#,`nng_cv_wake()`>> or +<<nng_cv_wake1.3supp#,`nng_cv_wake1()`>>, or the system clock (as tracked +by <<nng_clock.3supp#,`nng_clock()`>>) reaches _when_. + +The caller must have have ownership of the mutex that was used when +_cv_ was allocated. +This function will drop the ownership of that mutex, and reacquire it +atomically just before returning to the caller. +(The waiting is done without holding the mutex.) + +NOTE: Any condition may be used or checked, but the condition must be +checked, as it is possible for this function to wake up "`spuriously`". +The best way to do this is inside a loop that repeats until the condition +tests for true. + +== EXAMPLE + +The following example demonstrates use of this function: + +.Example 1: Waiting for the condition +[source, c] +---- + + nng_mtx_lock(m); // assume cv was allocated using m + while (!condition_true) { + if (nng_cv_wait(cv) == NNG_ETIMEDOUT) { + printf("Time out reached!\n"); + break; + } + } + // condition_true is true + nng_mtx_unlock(m); +---- + +.Example 2: Signaling the condition +[source, c] +---- + nng_mtx_lock(m); + condition_true = true; + cv_wake(cv); + nng_mtx_unlock(m); +---- + +== RETURN VALUES + +None. + +== ERRORS + +None. + +== SEE ALSO + +<<nng_cv_alloc.3supp#,nng_cv_alloc(3supp)>>, +<<nng_cv_wait.3supp#,nng_cv_wait(3supp)>>, +<<nng_cv_wake.3supp#,nng_cv_wake(3supp)>>, +<<nng_cv_wake1.3supp#,nng_cv_wake1(3supp)>>, +<<nng_mtx_alloc.3supp#,nng_mtx_alloc(3supp)>>, +<<nng_mtx_lock.3supp#,nng_mtx_lock(3supp)>>, +<<nng_mtx_unlock.3supp#,nng_mtx_unlock(3supp)>>, +<<nng.7#,nng(7)>> |
