Interruptible FFI calls with pthread_kill and CancelSynchronousIO. v4

[ghc-hetmet.git] / includes / rts / OSThreads.h

diff --git a/includes/rts/OSThreads.h b/includes/rts/OSThreads.h
index 2d32136..5d3e6ba 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/rts/OSThreads.h
+++ b/includes/rts/OSThreads.h
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  *
- * (c) The GHC Team, 2001-2005
+ * (c) The GHC Team, 2001-2009
  *
  * Accessing OS threads functionality in a (mostly) OS-independent
  * manner. 
  * 
+ * Do not #include this file directly: #include "Rts.h" instead.
+ *
+ * To understand the structure of the RTS headers, see the wiki:
+ *   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/SourceTree/Includes
+ *
  * --------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 #ifndef RTS_OSTHREADS_H
@@ -160,6 +165,7 @@ typedef void OSThreadProcAttr OSThreadProc(void *);
 extern int  createOSThread        ( OSThreadId* tid, 
                                    OSThreadProc *startProc, void *param);
 extern rtsBool osThreadIsAlive    ( OSThreadId id );
+extern void interruptOSThread (OSThreadId id);
 
 //
 // Condition Variables