freebsd-ports/devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr
Jason Evans 4ebeef489c Update to the most recent release of LinuxThreads, glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.2,
which is rather tightly coupled with GNU libc, unlike the older version
of this port.

LinuxThreads has added many features since it was integrated with GNU libc,
which means that a number of interfaces that were borrowed from libc_r are
no longer needed.

This updated port required a lot of reworking of the port, so there are
likely to be new bugs.
1999-12-24 01:12:08 +00:00

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LinuxThreads is an POSIX pthreads implementation using "kernel threads". In
this FreeBSD port, a kernel thread is started using rfork (whereas in the
original Linux implementation a kernel thread is started using the Linux clone
call). This implementaion provides a so-called one-to-one mapping of threads to
kernel schedulable entities. For more information see about the original
LinuxThreads implementation see:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/
Note that LinuxThreads has been integrated with the GNU C library (glibc) since
version 2.0, so the above URL points to dated information.