Function

DexFiberFunc

Declaration

DexFuture*
(* DexFiberFunc) (
  gpointer user_data
)

Description [src]

This function prototype is used for spawning fibers. A fiber is a lightweight, cooperative-multitasking feature where the fiber is given it’s own stack. The fiber runs until it reaches a point of suspension (using dex_await or similar) or exits the fiber.

When suspended, the fiber is placed onto a queue until it is runnable again. Once runnable, the fiber is scheduled to run from within whatever scheduler it was created with.

See dex_scheduler_spawn().

Parameters

user_data

Type: gpointer

No description available.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

Return value

Type: DexFuture

A DexFuture or NULL.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The return value can be NULL.