src/common/thread.hpp

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#ifndef __THREAD_HPP__
#define __THREAD_HPP__

#include <pthread.h>

#include <stout/lambda.hpp>

// Provides a simple threading facility for starting a thread to run
// an arbitrary function. No mechanism for returning a value from the
// function is currently provided (and in the future would probably be
// provided by libprocess anyway).

namespace thread {

// TODO(benh): Provide a version of 'start' that returns a type T (the
// value being a copy or preferablly via move semantics).
bool start(const lambda::function<void(void)>& f, bool detach = false);

} // namespace thread {

#endif // __THREAD_HPP__