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GNU Pth - GNU Portable Threads
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Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
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Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
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which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
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threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All
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threads run in the same address space of the server application, but
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each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack,
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signal mask and errno variable.
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The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the
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threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive
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scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better
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portability and run-time performance than with preemptive scheduling.
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The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events
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occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, asynchronous signals,
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elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process
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termination, and even customized callback functions.
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WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
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