From 81346b256c86c3c16b1cfa8a8aac895c5c5e17cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:57:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] plugin: Added plugin_thread_create().

This function is a wrapper around pthread_create() which copies the plugin
context to the new thread. Else, that information would be lost.
---
 src/plugin.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/plugin.h |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/plugin.c b/src/plugin.c
index 7d66bd87..5387f9c4 100644
--- a/src/plugin.c
+++ b/src/plugin.c
@@ -2045,4 +2045,41 @@ plugin_ctx_t plugin_set_ctx (plugin_ctx_t ctx)
 	return (old);
 } /* void plugin_set_ctx */
 
+typedef struct {
+	plugin_ctx_t ctx;
+	void *(*start_routine) (void *);
+	void *arg;
+} plugin_thread_t;
+
+static void *plugin_thread_start (void *arg)
+{
+	plugin_thread_t *plugin_thread = arg;
+
+	void *(*start_routine) (void *) = plugin_thread->start_routine;
+	void *plugin_arg = plugin_thread->arg;
+
+	plugin_set_ctx (plugin_thread->ctx);
+
+	free (plugin_thread);
+
+	return start_routine (plugin_arg);
+} /* void *plugin_thread_start */
+
+int plugin_thread_create (pthread_t *thread, const pthread_attr_t *attr,
+		void *(*start_routine) (void *), void *arg)
+{
+	plugin_thread_t *plugin_thread;
+
+	plugin_thread = malloc (sizeof (*plugin_thread));
+	if (plugin_thread == NULL)
+		return -1;
+
+	plugin_thread->ctx           = plugin_get_ctx ();
+	plugin_thread->start_routine = start_routine;
+	plugin_thread->arg           = arg;
+
+	return pthread_create (thread, attr,
+			plugin_thread_start, plugin_thread);
+} /* int plugin_thread_create */
+
 /* vim: set sw=8 ts=8 noet fdm=marker : */
diff --git a/src/plugin.h b/src/plugin.h
index a2f7f098..5036a63b 100644
--- a/src/plugin.h
+++ b/src/plugin.h
@@ -378,4 +378,11 @@ void plugin_init_ctx (void);
 plugin_ctx_t plugin_get_ctx (void);
 plugin_ctx_t plugin_set_ctx (plugin_ctx_t ctx);
 
+/*
+ * Context-aware thread management.
+ */
+
+int plugin_thread_create (pthread_t *thread, const pthread_attr_t *attr,
+		void *(*start_routine) (void *), void *arg);
+
 #endif /* PLUGIN_H */
-- 
2.11.0