/**
* Open one instance of the receiver.
*
- * This should allocate the output buffer of \a rn. and may also
- * perform any other work necessary for retrieving the stream according
- * to the configuration stored in the \a conf member of \a rn which is
- * guaranteed to point to valid configuration data (as previously
- * obtained from the config parser).
+ * This should allocate the output buffer of the given receiver node
+ * and prepare it for retrieving the audio stream according to the
+ * configuration stored in rn->lpr.
*
* \sa struct \ref receiver_node.
*/
/**
* Add file descriptors to fd_sets and compute timeout for select(2).
*
- * The pre_select function gets called from the driving application
- * before entering its select loop. The receiver may use this hook to
- * add any file descriptors to the sets of file descriptors given by \a
- * s.
+ * If this is not NULL, the function is called in each iteration of the
+ * scheduler's select loop. The receiver may define it to add file
+ * descriptors to the file descriptor sets given by s. Those will be
+ * monitored in the subsequent call to select(2). The function may also
+ * lower the timeout value of s to make select(2) return earlier if no
+ * file descriptors are ready for I/O.
*
* \sa select(2), \ref time.c, struct \ref sched.
*/
void (*pre_select)(struct sched *s, void *context);
/**
- * Evaluate the result from select().
+ * Evaluate the result from select(2).
*
- * This hook gets called after the call to select(). It should check
- * all file descriptors which were added to any of the fd sets during
- * the previous call to pre_select. According to the result, it may
- * then use any non-blocking I/O to establish a connection or to
- * receive the audio data.
+ * This is called after the call to select(2). It should check all file
+ * descriptors which were added to any of the fd sets in the previous
+ * call to ->pre_select() and perform (non-blocking) I/O operations on
+ * those fds which are ready for I/O, for example in order to establish
+ * a connection or to receive a part of the audio stream.
*
* \sa select(2), struct \ref receiver.
*/
int (*post_select)(struct sched *s, void *context);
-
/**
* Answer a buffer tree query.
*
- * This optional function pointer is used for inter node communications
+ * This optional function pointer allows for inter node communication
* of the buffer tree nodes. See \ref btr_command_handler for details.
*/
btr_command_handler execute;