gvisor/pkg/refsvfs2/refs.go

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// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
// Package refsvfs2 defines an interface for a reference-counted object.
package refsvfs2
import (
"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/context"
)
// RefCounter is the interface to be implemented by objects that are reference
// counted.
type RefCounter interface {
// IncRef increments the reference counter on the object.
IncRef()
// DecRef decrements the object's reference count. Users of refs_template.Refs
// may specify a destructor to be called once the reference count reaches zero.
DecRef(ctx context.Context)
// TryIncRef attempts to increment the reference count, but may fail if all
// references have already been dropped, in which case it returns false. If
// true is returned, then a valid reference is now held on the object.
TryIncRef() bool
}