/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: wx/unix/private/wakeuppipe.h // Purpose: Helper class allowing to wake up the main thread. // Author: Vadim Zeitlin // Created: 2013-06-09 (extracted from src/unix/evtloopunix.cpp) // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Copyright: (c) 2013 Vadim Zeitlin // Licence: wxWindows licence /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #ifndef _WX_UNIX_PRIVATE_WAKEUPPIPE_H_ #define _WX_UNIX_PRIVATE_WAKEUPPIPE_H_ #include "wx/private/fdiohandler.h" #include "wx/unix/pipe.h" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // wxWakeUpPipe: allows to wake up the event loop by writing to it // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // This class is not MT-safe, see wxWakeUpPipeMT below for a wake up pipe // usable from other threads. class wxWakeUpPipe : public wxFDIOHandler { public: // Create and initialize the pipe. // // It's the callers responsibility to add the read end of this pipe, // returned by GetReadFd(), to the code blocking on input. wxWakeUpPipe(); // Wake up the blocking operation involving this pipe. // // It simply writes to the write end of the pipe. // // As indicated by its name, this method does no locking and so can be // called only from the main thread. void WakeUpNoLock(); // Same as WakeUp() but without locking. // Return the read end of the pipe. int GetReadFd() { return m_pipe[wxPipe::Read]; } // implement wxFDIOHandler pure virtual methods virtual void OnReadWaiting(); virtual void OnWriteWaiting() { } virtual void OnExceptionWaiting() { } private: wxPipe m_pipe; // This flag is set to true after writing to the pipe and reset to false // after reading from it in the main thread. Having it allows us to avoid // overflowing the pipe with too many writes if the main thread can't keep // up with reading from it. bool m_pipeIsEmpty; }; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // wxWakeUpPipeMT: thread-safe version of wxWakeUpPipe // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // This class can be used from multiple threads, i.e. its WakeUp() can be // called concurrently. class wxWakeUpPipeMT : public wxWakeUpPipe { public: wxWakeUpPipeMT() { } // Thread-safe wrapper around WakeUpNoLock(): can be called from another // thread to wake up the main one. void WakeUp() { wxCriticalSectionLocker lock(m_pipeLock); WakeUpNoLock(); } virtual void OnReadWaiting() { wxCriticalSectionLocker lock(m_pipeLock); wxWakeUpPipe::OnReadWaiting(); } private: // Protects access to m_pipeIsEmpty. wxCriticalSection m_pipeLock; }; #endif // _WX_UNIX_PRIVATE_WAKEUPPIPE_H_