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+// Copyright (c) 2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_THREADINTERRUPT_H
+#define BITCOIN_THREADINTERRUPT_H
+
+#include <atomic>
+#include <chrono>
+#include <condition_variable>
+#include <mutex>
+
+/*
+    A helper class for interruptible sleeps. Calling operator() will interrupt
+    any current sleep, and after that point operator bool() will return true
+    until reset.
+*/
+class CThreadInterrupt
+{
+public:
+    explicit operator bool() const;
+    void operator()();
+    void reset();
+    bool sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds rel_time);
+    bool sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds rel_time);
+    bool sleep_for(std::chrono::minutes rel_time);
+
+private:
+    std::condition_variable cond;
+    std::mutex mut;
+    std::atomic<bool> flag;
+};
+
+#endif //BITCOIN_THREADINTERRUPT_H