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GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
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Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@gnu.org>
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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 (aka ``multithreading'') inside event-driven
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applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server
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application, but each thread has it's own individual program-counter,
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run-time stack, 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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