/* mytm.h

	Copyright (C) 1991-2001 and beyond by Bo Lindbergh
	and the "Aleph One" developers.
 
	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.

	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.

	This license is contained in the file "COPYING",
	which is included with this source code; it is available online at
	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html


    Sept-Nov 2001 (Woody Zenfell): new function myTMCleanup for SDL bookkeeping
    
    Jan 15, 2003 (Woody Zenfell): exposing new mytm mutex for locking/unlocking (primarily by packet listening thread)
*/

#ifndef MYTM_H_
#define MYTM_H_

typedef struct myTMTask myTMTask,*myTMTaskPtr;

extern myTMTaskPtr myTMSetup(
	long time,
	bool (*func)(void));

extern myTMTaskPtr myXTMSetup(
	long time,
	bool (*func)(void));

extern myTMTaskPtr myTMRemove(
	myTMTaskPtr task);

extern void myTMReset(
	myTMTaskPtr task);

// ZZZ: call this from time to time to collect leftover zombie threads and reclaim a little storage.
// Pass false for fairly quick operation.  Pass true to make sure that we wait for folks to finish.
extern void myTMCleanup(bool waitForFinishers);

// ZZZ: Use these for mutually exclusive operation with any emulated TMTasks
extern bool take_mytm_mutex();
extern bool release_mytm_mutex();

// ZZZ: call before any other mytm routines
extern void mytm_initialize();

#endif //def MYTM_H_