Switch the first thread in a child process to be the main thread...

chrome/common/child_process.h

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_H__
 #define CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_H__
 
 #include "base/basictypes.h"
 #include "base/scoped_ptr.h"
+#include "base/thread.h"
 #include "base/waitable_event.h"
-
-class ChildThread;
+#include "chrome/common/child_thread.h"
 
 // Base class for child processes of the browser process (i.e. renderer and
 // plugin host). This is a singleton object for each child process.
 class ChildProcess {
  public:
-  // Child processes should have an object that derives from this class.  The
-  // constructor will return once ChildThread has started.
-  ChildProcess(ChildThread* child_thread);
+  // Child processes should have an object that derives from this class.
+  ChildProcess();
   virtual ~ChildProcess();
 
-  // Getter for this process' main thread.
-  ChildThread* child_thread() { return child_thread_.get(); }
+  // Getter for the child process' main thread.
+  ChildThread* main_thread() { return main_thread_.get(); }
+  void set_main_thread(ChildThread* thread) { main_thread_.reset(thread); }
+
+  MessageLoop* io_message_loop() { return io_thread_.message_loop(); }
 
   // A global event object that is signalled when the main thread's message
   // loop exits.  This gives background threads a way to observe the main
   // thread shutting down.  This can be useful when a background thread is
   // waiting for some information from the browser process.  If the browser
   // process goes away prematurely, the background thread can at least notice
   // the child processes's main thread exiting to determine that it should give
   // up waiting.
   // For example, see the renderer code used to implement
   // webkit_glue::GetCookies.
   base::WaitableEvent* GetShutDownEvent();
 
   // These are used for ref-counting the child process.  The process shuts
   // itself down when the ref count reaches 0.
   // For example, in the renderer process, generally each tab managed by this
   // process will hold a reference to the process, and release when closed.
   void AddRefProcess();
   void ReleaseProcess();
 
   // Getter for the one ChildProcess object for this process.
   static ChildProcess* current() { return child_process_; }
 
  private:
-  // NOTE: make sure that child_thread_ is listed before shutdown_event_, since
-  // it depends on it (indirectly through IPC::SyncChannel).
-  scoped_ptr<ChildThread> child_thread_;
-
   int ref_count_;
 
   // An event that will be signalled when we shutdown.
   base::WaitableEvent shutdown_event_;
 
+  // The thread that handles IO events.
+  base::Thread io_thread_;
+
+  // NOTE: make sure that main_thread_ is listed after shutdown_event_, since
+  // it depends on it (indirectly through IPC::SyncChannel).  Same for
+  // io_thread_.
+  scoped_ptr<ChildThread> main_thread_;
+
   // The singleton instance for this process.
   static ChildProcess* child_process_;
 
   DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS(ChildProcess);
 };
 
 #endif  // CHROME_COMMON_CHILD_PROCESS_H__