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diff --git a/devel/pth/pkg-descr b/devel/pth/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index e93ac6200a14..000000000000 --- a/devel/pth/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -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 file descriptors, asynchronous signals, -elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process -termination, and even customized callback functions. |