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/**
 * @file
 * An interface for asynchronous tasks.  *_async() versions of functions
 * return a dmnsn_progress* object which can indicate the progress of the
 * background task, and wait for task completion.  The task's return value
 * is returned as an int from dmnsn_finish_progress().
 */

/** A progress object. */
typedef struct dmnsn_progress dmnsn_progress;

/**
 * Join the worker thread and return it's integer return value in addition to
 * deleting \p progress.
 * @param[in,out] progress  The background task to finish.
 * @return The return value of the background task.
 */
int dmnsn_finish_progress(dmnsn_progress *progress);

/**
 * Interrupt the execution of a background thread.
 * @param[in,out] progress  The background task to cancel.
 */
void dmnsn_cancel_progress(dmnsn_progress *progress);

/**
 * Get the progress of the background task.
 * @param[in] progress  The background task to examine.
 * @return The progress of the background task, out of 1.0.
 */
double dmnsn_get_progress(const dmnsn_progress *progress);

/**
 * Wait for a certain amount of progress.  Always use this rather than
 * spinlocking.
 * @param[in] progress  The background task to monitor.
 * @param[in] prog      The progress value to wait for.
 */
void dmnsn_wait_progress(const dmnsn_progress *progress, double prog);