(** Fibers. A fiber is a lightweight computation that runs cooperatively alongside other fibers. In the context of moonpool, fibers have additional properties: - they run in a moonpool runner - they form a simple supervision tree, enabling a limited form of structured concurrency *) (**/**) (**/**) type 'a t (** A fiber returning a value of type ['a]. *) val res : 'a t -> 'a Fut.t (** Future result of the fiber. *) type 'a callback = 'a Exn_bt.result -> unit (** Callbacks that are called when a fiber is done. *) type cancel_callback = Exn_bt.t -> unit val peek : 'a t -> 'a Fut.or_error option (** Peek inside the future result *) val is_done : _ t -> bool (** Has the fiber completed? *) val is_cancelled : _ t -> bool (** Has the fiber completed with a failure? *) val is_success : _ t -> bool (** Has the fiber completed with a value? *) val await : 'a t -> 'a (** [await fib] is like [Fut.await (res fib)] *) val check_if_cancelled : unit -> unit (** Check if the current fiber is cancelled, in which case this raises. Must be run from inside a fiber. @raise Failure if not. *) val yield : unit -> unit (** Yield control to the scheduler from the current fiber. @raise Failure if not run from inside a fiber. *) exception Cancelled of Exn_bt.t (** Exception for fibers that are cancelled. Polling points such as {!yield} and {!await} will raise this if the fiber has been cancelled. *) val with_cancel_callback : _ t -> cancel_callback -> (unit -> 'a) -> 'a (** [with_cancel_callback fib cb (fun () -> )] evaluates [e] in a scope in which, if the fiber [fib] is cancelled, [cb()] is called. If [e] returns without the fiber being cancelled, this callback is removed. *) val on_result : 'a t -> 'a callback -> unit (** Wait for fiber to be done and call the callback with the result. If the fiber is done already then the callback is invoked immediately with its result. *) val spawn_top : ?name:string -> on:Runner.t -> (unit -> 'a) -> 'a t (** [spawn_top ~on f] spawns a new (toplevel) fiber onto the given runner. This fiber is not the child of any other fiber: its lifetime is only determined by the lifetime of [f()]. *) val spawn_link : ?name:string -> protect:bool -> (unit -> 'a) -> 'a t (** [spawn_link ~protect f] spawns a sub-fiber [f_child] from a running fiber [parent]. The sub-fiber [f_child] is attached to the current fiber and fails if the current fiber [parent] fails. @param protect if true, when [f_child] fails, it does not affect [parent]. If false, [f_child] failing also causes [parent] to fail (and therefore all other children of [parent]). Must be run from inside a fiber. @raise Failure if not run from inside a fiber. *)