Pth

Pth - GNU Portable Threads library

'Pth' is a portable library that provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution inside event-driven applications. Threads run in the same address space on the server application, but each one has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

A priority- and event-based non-preemptive scheduler manages the threads; this gives better portability and run-time performance than preemptive scheduling. The event facility lets threads wait until various 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.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html
Source tarball	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/pth-2.0.1.tar.gz

Version 2.0.1 (stable) released on 2004-07-13

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 News	comp.programming.threads
Developer List	<pth-users@gnu.org>
Bug List	<bug-pth@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@gnu.org>
Developers	Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@gnu.org>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	pth-config, pthread-config
Source languages	C

Entry information

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

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