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* Copyright (c) 2008 Jiri Svoboda
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/** @addtogroup genericipc
* @{
*/
/** @file
*/
#ifndef KERN_IPC_KBOX_H_
#define KERN_IPC_KBOX_H_
#include <typedefs.h>
/** Kernel answerbox structure. */
typedef struct kbox {
/** The answerbox itself. */
answerbox_t box;
/** Thread used to service the answerbox. */
struct thread *thread;
/** Kbox thread creation vs. begin of cleanup mutual exclusion. */
mutex_t cleanup_lock;
/** True if cleanup of kbox has already started. */
bool finished;
} kbox_t;
extern int ipc_connect_kbox(task_id_t);
extern void ipc_kbox_cleanup(void);
#endif
/** @}
*/