GNU Portable Threads
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Original author(s) | Ralf S. Engelschall |
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Initial release | July 16, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-07-16) |
Stable release | 2.0.7 / June 8, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-06-08) |
Operating system | POSIX |
Type | Runtime library |
License | LGPL |
Website | www![]() |
GNU Pth (Portable Threads) is a POSIX/ANSI-C based user space thread library for UNIX platforms that provides priority-based scheduling for multithreading applications. GNU Pth targets for a high degree of portability. It is part of the GNU Project.[1]
Pth also provides API emulation for POSIX threads for backward compatibility.
GNU Pth uses an N: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 N threads in user-space. Because of this there is no possibility to utilize SMP as kernel dispatching would be necessary.
See also
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- ^ "GNU". Retrieved 25 June 2012.
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