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Diffstat (limited to 'src/lib/net/alertsock.c')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/net/alertsock.c b/src/lib/net/alertsock.c index c6ea1551f8..340f9513fb 100644 --- a/src/lib/net/alertsock.c +++ b/src/lib/net/alertsock.c @@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ * Copyright (c) 2007-2018, The Tor Project, Inc. */ /* See LICENSE for licensing information */ +/** + * \file alertsock.c + * + * \brief Use a socket to alert the main thread from a worker thread. + * + * Because our main loop spends all of its time in select, epoll, kqueue, or + * etc, we need a way to wake up the main loop from another thread. This code + * tries to provide the fastest reasonable way to do that, depending on our + * platform. + **/ + #include "orconfig.h" #include "lib/net/alertsock.h" #include "lib/net/socket.h" |