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-rw-r--r--src/core/async.c22
-rw-r--r--src/core/async.h2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/core/async.c b/src/core/async.c
index af527bea4e..3876deda70 100644
--- a/src/core/async.c
+++ b/src/core/async.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include "async.h"
#include "log.h"
+#include "util.h"
int asynchronous_job(void* (*func)(void *p), void *arg) {
pthread_attr_t a;
@@ -70,3 +71,24 @@ int asynchronous_sync(void) {
return asynchronous_job(sync_thread, NULL);
}
+
+static void *close_thread(void *p) {
+ safe_close(PTR_TO_INT(p));
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+int asynchronous_close(int fd) {
+ int r;
+
+ /* This is supposed to behave similar to safe_close(), but
+ * actually invoke close() asynchronously, so that it will
+ * never block. Ideally the kernel would have an API for this,
+ * but it doesn't, so we work around it, and hide this as a
+ * far away as we can. */
+
+ r = asynchronous_job(close_thread, INT_TO_PTR(fd));
+ if (r < 0)
+ safe_close(fd);
+
+ return -1;
+}
diff --git a/src/core/async.h b/src/core/async.h
index 6601b4dc4b..7f1ef79532 100644
--- a/src/core/async.h
+++ b/src/core/async.h
@@ -22,4 +22,6 @@
***/
int asynchronous_job(void* (*func)(void *p), void *arg);
+
int asynchronous_sync(void);
+int asynchronous_close(int fd);