// return a bad status the caller must run all of the `Join`s or any future
  // `StartExecute`s will deadlock).
  //
  // If `is_async=false` (constructor argument), `cancellation_manager` must
  // live until `Join` finishes. If `is_async=true` it must live until `Join` is
  // followed by `TFE_ContextAsyncWait` to clear pending operations. It will be
  // used to cancel all other operations if any fails.
  //

                                                void (*work_func)(void*),
                                                void* param);

// Waits for the given thread to finish execution, then deletes it.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TF_JoinThread(TF_Thread* thread);

// \brief Load a dynamic library.
//
// Pass "library_filename" to a platform-specific mechanism for dynamically

//
// If async execution is enabled, the call may simply enqueue the execution
// and return "non-ready" handles in `retvals`. Note that any handles contained
// in 'op' should not be mutated till the kernel execution actually finishes.
//
// For sync execution, if any of the inputs to `op` are not ready, this call
// will block till they become ready and then return when the kernel execution
// is done.

  /// FETCHING. After completing, if the read was successful the state should
  /// be FINISHED. Otherwise the state should be ERROR. A subsequent read can
  /// re-fetch the block if the state is ERROR.
  enum class FetchState {
    CREATED,
    FETCHING,
    FINISHED,
    ERROR,
  };

  /// \brief A block of a file.
  ///

// Deletes the eager Executor without waiting for enqueued nodes. Please call
// TFE_ExecutorWaitForAllPendingNodes before calling this API if you want to
// make sure all nodes are finished.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_DeleteExecutor(TFE_Executor*);

// Returns true if the executor is in async mode.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern bool TFE_ExecutorIsAsync(TFE_Executor*);

  // will take ownership and maintain devices' lifetime.
  virtual Status AddDevices(std::vector<std::unique_ptr<Device>> devices) = 0;

  // Block until all pending nodes are finished.
  virtual Status AsyncWait() = 0;

  // Add a function (serialized FunctionDef protocol buffer) so that it can
  // be executed as an op. Return error if the function with the same name
  // already exists.

/// must be "". The scheme must never be `nullptr`.
///
/// Every plugin fills this in `TF_InitPlugin`, using the alocator passed as
/// argument to allocate memory. After `TF_InitPlugin` finishes, core
/// TensorFlow uses the information present in this to initialize filesystems
/// for the URI schemes that the plugin requests.
///
/// All pointers defined in this structure point to memory allocated by the DSO