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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
 * vim: sw=4 ts=8 et :
 */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

include protocol PPluginInstance;

namespace mozilla {
namespace plugins {

/**
 * This protocol exists to allow us to correctly destroy background
 * surfaces.  The browser owns the surfaces, but shares a "reference"
 * with the plugin.  The browser needs to notify the plugin when the
 * background is going to be destroyed, but it can't rely on the
 * plugin to destroy it because the plugin may crash at any time.  So
 * the plugin instance relinquishes destruction of the its old
 * background to actors of this protocol, which can deal with crashy
 * corner cases more easily than the instance.
 */
protocol PPluginBackgroundDestroyer {
    manager PPluginInstance;

    // The ctor message for this protocol serves double-duty as
    // notification that that the background is stale.

parent:
    async __delete__();

state DESTROYING:
    recv __delete__;
};

}  // namespace plugins
}  // namespace mozilla