GNU Portable Threads

GNU Portable Threads
Developer(s) Ralf S. Engelschall
Stable release 2.0.7 / 8 June 2006
Operating system POSIX
Type Runtime library
License LGPL
Website www.gnu.org/software/pth

GNU Pth (Portable Threads) is a POSIX/ANSI-C based user-space thread library for UNIX platforms which provides priority-based scheduling for multithreading applications. GNU Pth targets for a high degree of portability.

Pth also provides API emulation for POSIX threads for backward compatibility.

GNU Pth uses a M:1 mapping to kernel-space threads, i.e., the scheduling is done completely by the GNU Pth library and the kernel itself is not aware of the M threads in user-space. Because of this there is no possibility to utilize SMP as kernel dispatching would be necessary.

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