Merge pull request #1385 from G10h4ck/safer_api

0.6.5 Safer rsGxsChannel API

libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.h

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <semaphore.h>
+#include <thread>
+#include <functional>
 
 #include <util/rsmemory.h>
 #include "util/rstime.h"
@@ -239,7 +241,7 @@ pthread_t  createThread(RsThread &thread);
 
 class RsThread
 {
-    public:
+public:
     RsThread();
     virtual ~RsThread() {}
 
@@ -259,6 +261,17 @@ class RsThread
 
     void ask_for_stop();
 
+	/**
+	 * Execute given function on another thread without blocking the caller
+	 * execution.
+	 * This can be generalized with variadic template, ATM it is enough to wrap
+	 *	any kind of function call or job into a lambda which get no paramethers
+	 *	and return nothing but can capture
+	 * This can be easly optimized later by using a thread pool
+	 */
+	static void async(const std::function<void()>& fn)
+	{ std::thread(fn).detach(); }
+
 protected:
     virtual void runloop() =0; /* called once the thread is started. Should be overloaded by subclasses. */
     void go() ;	// this one calls runloop and also sets the flags correctly when the thread is finished running.