freebsd-ports/devel/pth/pkg-descr

GNU Pth - GNU Portable Threads
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>

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 ("multithreading") inside server applications. All
threads run in the same address space of the server application, but
each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack,
signal mask and errno variable.

The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the
threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive
scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better
portability and run-time performance than with preemptive scheduling.
The event facility allows threads to 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 even customized callback functions.

WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
Puhh.... after five months of hard development we've approached GNU Portable Threads (Pth), release version 1.0.0 :-) 1999-07-16 11:11:46 -04:00			`GNU Pth - GNU Portable Threads`
Upgrade to GNU Portable Threads (Pth), version 1.4.0 2001-03-25 09:12:16 -05:00			`Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>`
Import of NPS, a non-preeemtive thread scheduling library. NPS is a POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemtive scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multi-threading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it's own individual run-time stack and program-counter. The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemtive scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better portability and run-time performance than with preemtive scheduling. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. More details: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ ftp://ftp.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ 1999-05-23 10:54:10 -04:00
Puhh.... after five months of hard development we've approached GNU Portable Threads (Pth), release version 1.0.0 :-) 1999-07-16 11:11:46 -04:00			`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 ("multithreading") inside server applications. All`
			`threads run in the same address space of the server application, but`
			`each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack,`
			`signal mask and errno variable.`
Import of NPS, a non-preeemtive thread scheduling library. NPS is a POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemtive scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multi-threading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it's own individual run-time stack and program-counter. The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemtive scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better portability and run-time performance than with preemtive scheduling. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. More details: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ ftp://ftp.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ 1999-05-23 10:54:10 -04:00
Puhh.... after five months of hard development we've approached GNU Portable Threads (Pth), release version 1.0.0 :-) 1999-07-16 11:11:46 -04:00			`The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the`
			`threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive`
			`scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better`
			`portability and run-time performance than with preemptive scheduling.`
			`The event facility allows threads to 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 even customized callback functions.`
Import of NPS, a non-preeemtive thread scheduling library. NPS is a POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemtive scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multi-threading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it's own individual run-time stack and program-counter. The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemtive scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better portability and run-time performance than with preemtive scheduling. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. More details: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ ftp://ftp.engelschall.com/sw/nps/ 1999-05-23 10:54:10 -04:00
Upgrade to GNU Portable Threads (Pth), version 1.2.2 2000-01-08 10:17:25 -05:00			`WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/`