Add infrastructure to run a function asynchronously.
authorJohannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:48:00 +0000 (21:48 +0200)
committerShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:30:41 +0000 (01:30 -0400)
commit2d22c208304156892fd6674e0055a3212c1e2d2e
tree48102e69b4db1fbd0b1513df225e05fd06bb1612
parentcc41fa8da9b9e9d23221d3be47a80409a89732d4
Add infrastructure to run a function asynchronously.

This adds start_async() and finish_async(), which runs a function
asynchronously. Communication with the caller happens only via pipes.
For this reason, this implementation forks off a child process that runs
the function.

[sp: Style nit fixed by removing unnecessary block on if condition
     inside of start_async()]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
run-command.c
run-command.h