87 lines
4.4 KiB
OCaml
87 lines
4.4 KiB
OCaml
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(* *)
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(* Caml Special Light *)
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(* *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* *)
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(* Copyright 1995 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
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(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
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(* *)
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(***********************************************************************)
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(* $Id$ *)
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(* Module [Thread]: user-level lightweight threads *)
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type t
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(* The type of thread identifiers. *)
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(** Thread creation and termination *)
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val new : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> t
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(* [new funct arg] creates a new thread of control, in which the
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function application [funct arg] is executed concurrently
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with the other threads of the program. The application of [new]
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returns the identifier of the newly created thread.
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The new thread terminates when the application [funct arg]
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returns, either normally or by raising an uncaught exception.
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In the latter case, the exception is printed on standard error,
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but not propagated back to the parent thread. Similarly, the
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result of the application [funct arg] is discarded and not
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directly accessible to the parent thread. *)
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val self : unit -> t
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(* Return the identifier of the calling thread. *)
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val exit : unit -> unit
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(* Terminate prematurely the calling thread. *)
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val kill : t -> unit
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(* Terminate prematurely the thread whose identifier is given. *)
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(** Suspending threads *)
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val delay: float -> unit
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(* [delay d] suspends the execution of the calling thread for
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[d] seconds. The other program threads continue to run during
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this time. *)
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val wait_inchan : in_channel -> unit
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(* [wait_inchan ic] suspends the execution of the calling thread
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until at least one character is available for reading on the
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input channel [ic]. The other program threads continue to run
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during this time. In contrast, calling an input function directly
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on [ic] would block all threads in the program until data is
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available on the channel. See the module [ThreadIO] for
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higher-level input functions compatible with threads. *)
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val wait_descr : Unix.file_descr -> unit
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(* Similar to [wait_inchan], but operates on a file descriptor
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from the [Unix] library instead of an input channel. *)
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val join : t -> unit
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(* [join th] suspends the execution of the calling thread
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until the thread [th] has terminated. *)
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(** Low-level thread synchronization primitives *)
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(* The following primitives provide the basis for implementing
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synchronization functions between threads. Their direct use is
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discouraged, as they are very low-level and prone to race conditions
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and deadlocks. The modules [Mutex], [Condition] and [Event]
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provide higher-level synchronization primitives. *)
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val critical_section: bool ref
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(* Setting this reference to [true] deactivate thread preemption
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(the timer interrupt that transfers control from thread to thread),
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causing the current thread to run uninterrupted until
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[critical_section] is reset to [false] or the current thread
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explicitely relinquishes control using [sleep], [delay],
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[wait_inchan] or [wait_descr]. *)
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val sleep : unit -> unit
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(* Suspend the calling thread until another thread reactivates it
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using [wakeup]. Just before suspending the thread,
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[critical_section] is reset to [false]. Resetting
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[critical_section] and suspending the calling thread is an
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atomic operation. *)
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val wakeup : t -> unit
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(* Reactivate the thread whose identifier is given. This thread
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is assumed to be suspended on a call to [sleep], [delay],
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[wait_inchan] or [wait_descr]. After the call to [wakeup],
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the suspended thread will resume execution at some future time.
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[wakeup] does nothing if the thread was not suspended. *)
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