From ac40d74f85dd2a0cbacf520d4456c6746c64e12e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:29:41 +0000
Subject: -document new API

---
 src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h')

diff --git a/src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h b/src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h
index 85b8f5f9c..f7d2f781c 100644
--- a/src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h
+++ b/src/include/gnunet_service_lib.h
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ GNUNET_SERVICE_ruN_ (int argc,
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_suspend (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Handle *sh);
 
+
 /**
  * Resume accepting connections from the listen socket.
  *
@@ -371,6 +372,7 @@ GNUNET_SERVICE_suspend (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Handle *sh);
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_resume (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Handle *sh);
 
+
 /**
  * Continue receiving further messages from the given client.
  * Must be called after each message received.
@@ -380,41 +382,69 @@ GNUNET_SERVICE_resume (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Handle *sh);
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_client_continue (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Client *c);
 
+
 /**
+ * Disable the warning the server issues if a message is not
+ * acknowledged in a timely fashion.  Use this call if a client is
+ * intentionally delayed for a while.  Only applies to the current
+ * message.
+ *
+ * @param c client for which to disable the warning
  */
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_client_disable_continue_warning (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Client *c);
 
+
 /**
+ * Ask the server to disconnect from the given client.  This is the
+ * same as returning #GNUNET_SYSERR within the check procedure when
+ * handling a message, wexcept that it allows dropping of a client even
+ * when not handling a message from that client.
  *
- * @param c
+ * @param c client to disconnect now
  */
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_client_drop (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Client *c);
 
+
 /**
+ * Stop the listen socket and get ready to shutdown the server once
+ * only clients marked using #GNUNET_SERVER_client_mark_monitor are
+ * left.
  *
- * @param sh
+ * @param sh server to stop listening on
  */
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_stop_listening (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Handle *sh);
 
+
 /**
- *
- * @param c
+ * Set the 'monitor' flag on this client.  Clients which have been
+ * marked as 'monitors' won't prevent the server from shutting down
+ * once #GNUNET_SERVICE_stop_listening() has been invoked.  The idea is
+ * that for "normal" clients we likely want to allow them to process
+ * their requests; however, monitor-clients are likely to 'never'
+ * disconnect during shutdown and thus will not be considered when
+ * determining if the server should continue to exist after
+ * shutdown has been triggered.
+ *
+ * @param c client to mark as a monitor
  */
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_client_mark_monitor (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Client *c);
 
+
 /**
+ * Set the persist option on this client.  Indicates that the
+ * underlying socket or fd should never really be closed.  Used for
+ * indicating process death.
  *
- * @param c
+ * @param c client to persist the socket (never to be closed)
  */
 void
 GNUNET_SERVICE_client_persist (struct GNUNET_SERVICE_Client *c);
 
 
-
 #if 0                           /* keep Emacsens' auto-indent happy */
 {
 #endif
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