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GNU Portable Threads

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GNU Portable Threads
Developer(s)Ralf S. Engelschall
Stable release
2.0.7 / 8 June 2006
Operating systemUNIX
TypeRuntime library
LicenseLGPL
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/pth

GNU Pth (Portable Threads) is a POSIX/ANSI-C based thread library 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.