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Pth - GNU Portable Threads library

Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space on the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

Threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive scheduler; this gives better portability and run-time performance than preemptive scheduling. The event facility lets threads wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, asynchronous signals, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and customized call back functions.

There is also an optional emulation API for POSIX.1c threads which can be used for backward compatability to existing multi-threaded applications.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/pth-2.0.0.tar.gz
Version 2.0.0 (stable) released on 2003-02-17
Licensed under LGPL.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
English on-line end user manual available at www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth-manual.html
Support contacts

Help List<pth-users@gnu.org>
Help Newscomp.programming.threads
Developer List<pth-users@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-pth@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programspth-config, pthread-config
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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