Vulkan-Docs/doc/specs/vulkan/appendices/VK_KHR_external_fence.txt

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// Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
// http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
include::meta/VK_KHR_external_fence.txt[]
*Last Modified Date*::
2017-05-08
*IP Status*::
No known IP claims.
*Contributors*::
- Jesse Hall, Google
- James Jones, NVIDIA
- Jeff Juliano, NVIDIA
- Cass Everitt, Oculus
- Contributors to <<VK_KHR_external_semaphore,VK_KHR_external_semaphore>>
An application using external memory may wish to synchronize access to that
memory using fences.
This extension enables an application to create fences from which non-Vulkan
handles that reference the underlying synchronization primitive can be
exported.
=== New Object Types
None.
=== New Enum Constants
* ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_EXPORT_FENCE_CREATE_INFO_KHR
=== New Enums
* elink:VkFenceImportFlagBitsKHR
=== New Structs
* slink:VkExportFenceCreateInfoKHR
=== New Functions
None.
=== Issues
This extension borrows concepts, semantics, and language from
<<VK_KHR_external_semaphore,VK_KHR_external_semaphore>>.
That extension's issues apply equally to this extension.