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#ifndef THREAD_CONTROL_H
#define THREAD_CONTROL_H

#include <pthread.h>

	/* We use a big mutex to make certain only one thread is running at a time,
	 * except when that thread would be blocked on I/O or a signal.  We do
	 * this becase many data structures and methods used from utility libraries
	 * are not inheriently thread safe.  So we error on the side of correctness,
	 * and this isn't a big deal since we are only really concerned with the gahp
	 * blocking when we do network communication and SOAP/WS_SECURITY processing.
	 */

extern pthread_mutex_t global_big_mutex;

#define amazon_gahp_grab_big_mutex()	\
	pthread_mutex_lock(&global_big_mutex)
#define amazon_gahp_release_big_mutex()	\
	pthread_mutex_unlock(&global_big_mutex)

#endif
