Timed Alarm service utility

The utility launches a separate
thread that holds a mutex for
x milisecs and then calls a callback
function to notify the caller about
the time lapse

Change-Id: If033eed71d28a8736c8393f6ff609ac59d8877d9

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+/* Copyright (c) 2013, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ *
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+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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+ */
+
+#ifndef __LOC_DELAY_H__
+#define __LOC_DELAY_H__
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
+#include<pthread.h>
+#include "log_util.h"
+
+/*
+  Return values:
+  Success = 0
+  Failure = Non zero
+*/
+typedef void(*loc_timer_callback)(void *user_data, int result);
+
+//int loc_timer_start(loc_timer_client_data *p_thread);
+int loc_timer_start(unsigned int delay_msec,
+                    loc_timer_callback,
+                    void* user_data);
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
+
+#endif //__LOC_DELAY_H__