bitcoin/src/kernel/context.h
TheCharlatan e2d680a32d
util: Add SignalInterrupt class and use in shutdown.cpp
This change helps generalize shutdown code so an interrupt can be
provided to libbitcoinkernel callers. This may also be useful to
eventually de-globalize all of the shutdown code.

Co-authored-by: Russell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>
Co-authored-by: TheCharlatan <seb.kung@gmail.com>
2023-06-28 09:49:28 +02:00

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// Copyright (c) 2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
#ifndef BITCOIN_KERNEL_CONTEXT_H
#define BITCOIN_KERNEL_CONTEXT_H
#include <util/signalinterrupt.h>
#include <memory>
namespace kernel {
//! Context struct holding the kernel library's logically global state, and
//! passed to external libbitcoin_kernel functions which need access to this
//! state. The kernel library API is a work in progress, so state organization
//! and member list will evolve over time.
//!
//! State stored directly in this struct should be simple. More complex state
//! should be stored to std::unique_ptr members pointing to opaque types.
struct Context {
//! Interrupt object that can be used to stop long-running kernel operations.
util::SignalInterrupt interrupt;
//! Declare default constructor and destructor that are not inline, so code
//! instantiating the kernel::Context struct doesn't need to #include class
//! definitions for all the unique_ptr members.
Context();
~Context();
};
//! Global pointer to kernel::Context for legacy code. New code should avoid
//! using this, and require state it needs to be passed to it directly.
//!
//! Having this pointer is useful because it allows state be moved out of global
//! variables into the kernel::Context struct before all global references to
//! that state are removed. This allows the global references to be removed
//! incrementally, instead of all at once.
extern Context* g_context;
} // namespace kernel
#endif // BITCOIN_KERNEL_CONTEXT_H