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+/**
+ * @file job_queue.h
+ *
+ * @brief Interface of job_queue_t.
+ *
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Martin Willi
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Hutter
+ * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ * option) any later version.  See <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+ * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+#ifndef JOB_QUEUE_H_
+#define JOB_QUEUE_H_
+
+typedef struct job_queue_t job_queue_t;
+
+#include <library.h>
+#include <processing/jobs/job.h>
+
+/**
+ * @brief The job queue stores jobs, which will be processed by the thread_pool_t.
+ *
+ * Jobs are added from various sources, from the threads and 
+ * from the event_queue_t.
+ * Although the job-queue is based on a linked_list_t
+ * all access functions are thread-save implemented.
+ * 
+ * @b Constructors:
+ * - job_queue_create()
+ * 
+ * @ingroup processing
+ */
+struct job_queue_t {
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Returns number of jobs in queue.
+	 *
+	 * @param job_queue_t 	calling object
+	 * @returns 			number of items in queue
+	 */
+	int (*get_count) (job_queue_t *job_queue);
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Get the next job from the queue.
+	 *
+	 * If the queue is empty, this function blocks until a job can be returned.
+	 * After using, the returned job has to get destroyed by the caller.
+	 *
+	 * @param job_queue_t 	calling object
+ 	 * @param[out] job 		pointer to a job pointer where to job is returned to
+	 * @return				next job
+	 */
+	job_t *(*get) (job_queue_t *job_queue);
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Adds a job to the queue.
+	 *
+	 * This function is non blocking and adds a job_t to the list.
+	 * The specific job object has to get destroyed by the thread which
+	 * removes the job.
+	 *
+	 * @param job_queue_t 	calling object
+ 	 * @param job 			job to add to the queue (job is not copied)
+	 */
+	void (*add) (job_queue_t *job_queue, job_t *job);
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Destroys a job_queue object.
+	 *
+	 * @warning The caller of this function has to make sure
+	 * that no thread is going to add or get a job from the job_queue
+	 * after calling this function.
+	 *
+	 * @param job_queue_t 	calling object
+	 */
+	void (*destroy) (job_queue_t *job_queue);
+};
+
+/**
+ * @brief Creates an empty job_queue.
+ *
+ * @return job_queue_t object
+ * 
+ * @ingroup processing
+ */
+job_queue_t *job_queue_create(void);
+
+#endif /*JOB_QUEUE_H_*/