freebsd-ports/devel/pth/pkg-descr

GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@gnu.org>

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 (aka ``multithreading'') inside event-driven
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/
Update to 2.0.5 Take MAINTAINER PR: 88037 Submitted by: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> 2005-10-26 20:59:25 +02:00			`GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads`
			`Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@gnu.org>`
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 16:54:10 +02:00
Puhh.... after five months of hard development we've approached GNU Portable Threads (Pth), release version 1.0.0 :-) 1999-07-16 17:11:46 +02:00			`Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms`
			`which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple`
Update to 2.0.5 Take MAINTAINER PR: 88037 Submitted by: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> 2005-10-26 20:59:25 +02:00			threads of execution (aka ``multithreading'') inside event-driven
			`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 16:54:10 +02:00
Update to 2.0.5 Take MAINTAINER PR: 88037 Submitted by: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> 2005-10-26 20:59:25 +02:00			`The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e., the`
Puhh.... after five months of hard development we've approached GNU Portable Threads (Pth), release version 1.0.0 :-) 1999-07-16 17:11:46 +02:00			`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 16:54:10 +02:00
Upgrade to GNU Portable Threads (Pth), version 1.2.2 2000-01-08 16:17:25 +01:00			`WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/`