Setting tag sliver-openvswitch-2.2.90-1

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / lib / process.h

diff --git a/lib/process.h b/lib/process.h
index 45e2a00..3feac7e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/process.h
+++ b/lib/process.h
@@ -21,23 +21,27 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 struct process;
+
+/* Starting and monitoring subprocesses.
+ *
+ * process_init() and process_start() may safely be called only from a
+ * single-threaded parent process.  The parent process may safely create
+ * additional threads afterward, as long as the remaining functions in this
+ * group are called only from a single thread at any given time. */
 void process_init(void);
-char *process_escape_args(char **argv);
-int process_start(char **argv,
-                  const int *keep_fds, size_t n_keep_fds,
-                  const int *null_fds, size_t n_null_fds,
-                  struct process **);
+int process_start(char **argv, struct process **);
 void process_destroy(struct process *);
 int process_kill(const struct process *, int signr);
-
 pid_t process_pid(const struct process *);
 const char *process_name(const struct process *);
 bool process_exited(struct process *);
 int process_status(const struct process *);
-char *process_status_msg(int);
-
+void process_run(void);
 void process_wait(struct process *);
 
+/* These functions are thread-safe. */
+char *process_status_msg(int);
+char *process_escape_args(char **argv);
 char *process_search_path(const char *);
 
 #endif /* process.h */