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+/* Copyright (c) 2010. The SimGrid Team.
+ * All rights reserved. */
+
+/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the license (GNU LGPL) which comes with this package. */
+
+/* SimGrid Lua bindings */
+
+#include "lua_private.h"
+#include <lauxlib.h>
+
+XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_SUBCATEGORY(lua_process, bindings, "Lua Bindings (process module)");
+
+#define PROCESS_MODULE_NAME "simgrid.process"
+
+/* ********************************************************************************* */
+/* simgrid.process API */
+/* ********************************************************************************* */
+
+/**
+ * \brief Makes the current process sleep for a while.
+ * \param L a Lua state
+ * \return number of values returned to Lua
+ *
+ * - Argument 1 (number): duration of the sleep
+ * - Return value (nil or string): nil in everything went ok, or a string error
+ * if case of failure ("host failure")
+ */
+static int l_process_sleep(lua_State* L)
+{
+ double duration = luaL_checknumber(L, 1);
+ MSG_error_t res = MSG_process_sleep(duration);
+
+ switch (res) {
+
+ case MSG_OK:
+ return 0;
+
+ case MSG_HOST_FAILURE:
+ lua_pushliteral(L, "host failure");
+ return 1;
+
+ default:
+ xbt_die("Unexpected result of MSG_process_sleep: %d, please report this bug", res);
+ }
+}
+
+static const luaL_reg process_functions[] = {
+ {"sleep", l_process_sleep},
+ /* TODO: self, create, kill, suspend, is_suspended, resume, get_name,
+ * get_pid, get_ppid, migrate
+ */
+ {NULL, NULL}
+};
+
+/**
+ * \brief Registers the process functions into the table simgrid.process.
+ * \param L a lua state
+ */
+void sglua_register_process_functions(lua_State* L)
+{
+ luaL_openlib(L, PROCESS_MODULE_NAME, process_functions, 0);
+ /* simgrid.process */
+ lua_pop(L, 1);
+}
+