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.\" $NetBSD: puffs_cc.3,v 1.9 2007/12/07 14:55:12 pooka Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: puffs_cc.3,v 1.10 2007/12/15 20:08:06 pooka Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Antti Kantee. All rights reserved.
.\"
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd December 7, 2007
.Dd December 15, 2007
.Dt PUFFS_CC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Fn puffs_cc_continue "struct puffs_cc *pcc"
.Ft void
.Fn puffs_cc_schedule "struct puffs_cc *pcc"
.Ft struct puffs_cc *
.Fn puffs_cc_getcc "struct puffs_usermount *pu"
.Ft void *
.Fn puffs_docc "void *arg"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Em IMPORTANT NOTE!
This document describes interfaces which are not yet guaranteed to be
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The interfaces in this document will most likely be hugely simplified
in later versions or made transparent to the implementation.
.Pp
These functions enable the use of continuations within the framework.
Every operation callback within a file system implementation is
automatically passed an opaque cookie,
.Va pcc ,
to be used as a continuation handle.
.Pp
File systems using continuations should define their own event loop
instead of using
.Fn puffs_mainloop .
These routines are used for the cooperative multitasking suite present
in puffs.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxx
.It Fn puffs_cc_getusermount "pcc"
Returns a pointer to the file system structure
.Va struct puffs_usermount
the context is associated with.
.It Fn puffs_cc_getspecific "pcc"
Returns a pointer to file system private data.
This is shorthand for
calling
.Fn puffs_getspecific
with the result from
.Fn puffs_cc_getusermount .
.It Fn puffs_cc_yield "pcc"
Suspend and save the current execution context and return control
to the previous point.
In practice, from the file system author perspective, control returns
back to where either
.Fn puffs_req_handle
.Fn puffs_dopufbuf
or
.Fn puffs_docc
was called.
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Will suspend current execution and return control to where it was
before before calling
.Fn puffs_cc_yield .
This is rarely called directly.
This is rarely called directly but rather through
.Fn puffs_docc .
.It Fn puffs_cc_schedule "pcc"
Schedule a continuation.
As opposed to
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this call returns immediately.
.Fa pcc
will be scheduled sometime in the future.
.It Fn puffs_docc "pcc" "ppr"
.It Fn puffs_cc_getcc "pu"
Returns the current pcc or
.Dv NULL
if this is the main thread.
.Em NOTE:
The argument
.Ar pu
will most likely disappear at some point.
.It Fn puffs_docc "arg"
Continues request suspended with
.Fn puffs_cc_yield .
If the request completes without yielding again, the result can be
found from
.Fa ppr .
If the request completes without yielding again, the result is put
into the file server response queue.
.Pp
The argument must be of type
.Vt "struct puffs_cc *" .
The return value is ignored.
The signature of this function is intended to match
.Fn start_routine
of
.Fn pthread_create .
.El
.Pp
Before calling
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This cookie should be hooked to the
.Va pcc
so that the correct continuation can be continued when the event it
was waiting for triggers.
.Pp
The puffs ssh file system is supposed to be the canonical example
for the use of the continuation framework.
was waiting for triggers. Alternatively, the
.Xr puffs_framebuf 3
framework can be used for handling this automatically.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr puffs 3 ,
.Xr puffs_framebuf 3 ,
.Xr puffs_req 3 ,
.Xr mount_psshfs 8
.Xr puffs_framebuf 3