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Linux Threads Home Page: Are there threading libraries? Where?
Are there threading libraries? Where?
Yes, there are several. Here are a several URLs with their individual
detail. Please note that I have emailed the authors (if known) to get more
information about their libraries.
Linux Threads Packages
| Title: |
Bare-Bones Threads |
| Author: |
Christopher Neufeld [neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation []
Source
[ftp://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/linux/bb_threads.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
This is a very basic, bare-bones threading package which has been tested
on both single-CPU and SMP Linux boxes. Clone()-based & includes demo
program. |
| License: |
None |
| Status: |
Active development. Version 0.3 |
| Title: |
CLthreads |
| Author: |
Pavel Krauz [kra@fsid.cvut.cz] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation []
Source
[ftp://lin.fsid.cvut.cz/pub/linux/clthreads/clthreads-0.1.1.tgz]
Binary
[ftp://lin.fsid.cvut.cz/pub/linux/clthreads/clthreads-0.1.1.bin.tgz]
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| API: |
POSIX 1003.1c |
| Description: |
clone()-based pthreads library, includes partial libc, POSIX 1003.1b
support, example programs. |
| License: |
LGPL |
| Status: |
Active maintenance. Version 0.1.1 |
| Title: |
DCEthreads |
| Author: |
Michael T. Peterson [mtp@big.aa.net] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation [http://www.aa.net/~mtp/PCthreads.html]
Source
[ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/dcethreads-1.0.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
POSIX 1003.4c Draft 4 (?) |
| Description: |
PCthreads (tm) is a multithreading library for Linux-based Intel systems
and is based on the POSIX 1003.1c standard. The kit contains the sources
for the library (libpthreads), a build environment for building both ELF
and A.OUT versions of the library, and a complete set of man pages for
all POSIX .1c functions. |
| License: |
GPL(? Source is included) |
| Status: |
??? Version 1.0 |
| Title: |
FSU Pthreads |
| Author: |
Frank Mueller [mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de] |
| Repositories: |
Project Documentation
[http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~mueller/projects.html]
Interface
Documentation [file://ftp.cs.fsu.edu/pub/PART/publications/pthreads_interface.ps.gz]
Project
Documentation mirror [http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/projects.html]
Interface
Documentation mirror [http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/ftp/pub/PART/pthreads_interface.ps.Z]
Source
[ftp://ftp.cs.fsu.edu/pub/PART/PTHREADS/pthreads.tar.gz]
Source
mirror [http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/ftp/pub/PART/pthreads.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
POSIX 1003.4a Draft 6 + Draft 10 extensions |
| Description: |
Pthreads is a C library which implements POSIX threads for SunOS 4.1.x,
Solaris 2.x, SCO UNIX, FreeBSD and Linux. Used for GNU Ada Runtime; partial
libc support. User-space pthreads library; used for GNU Ada Runtime; partial
libc, POSIX 1003.4 support; pthreads documentation. |
| License: |
LGPL |
| Status: |
Active development. Version 2.9 |
| Title: |
JKthread |
| Author: |
Jeff Koftinoff [jeffk@awinc.com] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation [http://turnercom.com/jdk/linux3.html]
Source [http://turnercom.com/jdk/jkthread-1.1.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
This is an experiment with the Linux 2.0 clone() call to implement
usable kernel threads in a user program. These jkthreads have an API that
has NOTHING to do with pthreads or Win32 threads or BeBox threads. Includes
C++ wrappers. |
| License: |
Postcard-ware |
| Status: |
???? Version 1.0 |
| Title: |
LinuxThreads |
| Author: |
Xavier Leroy [Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation
[http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/]
Source
[ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Xavier.Leroy/linuxthreads.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
POSIX 1003.1c |
| Description: |
LinuxThreads is an implementation of the Posix 1003.1c thread package
for Linux. Unlike other implementations of Posix threads, LinuxThreads
provides kernel-space threads: threads are created with the new clone()
system call and all scheduling is done in the kernel. Includes partial
libc support & program examples. |
| License: |
LGPL |
| Status: |
Active development. Version: 0.5 |
| Title: |
LWP |
| Author: |
Stephen Crane [jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.ps.gz]
Source [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
A small portable lightweight (user-space) process library for sun3/4,
mips-ultrix, 386BSD, HP-UX and Linux. (Man pages included) |
| License: |
LGPL |
| Status: |
Active maintenance (a set of C++ wrappers is currently under development).
Version ?? |
| Title: |
NThreads (Numerical Threads) |
| Author: |
Thomas Radke [../../../../documentation/FAQ/Threads-FAQ/Thomas.Ra] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation
[ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/informatik/linux]
Source
[ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/informatik/linux/nthreads.tgz]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
User-space threads package included with patches to Linux kernel to
support kernel threading. (Includes man pages) |
| License: |
GPL (? Source is included) |
| Status: |
???? Version ?? |
| Title: |
Provenzano Pthreads |
| Author: |
Christopher A. Provenzano [proven@mit.edu] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation
[http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html]
Source [ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/pthreads]
Source
[ftp://ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/GCC/libc-5.3.12.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
POSIX 1003.1c subset (lacks thread cancellation) |
| Description: |
User-space pthreads library with thread-blocking syscalls (read, write,
connect, accept, sleep, wait, etc.) and a thread-safe C library (stdio,
net utilities, etc.) A separate version is distributed with Linux libc
source but may not be built by default. |
| License: |
BSD style |
| Status: |
Active development. Version 1.60b5 |
| Title: |
QuickThreads |
| Author: |
David Keppel [pardo@cs.washington.edu] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation
[ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/1993/05/UW-CSE-93-05-06.PS.Z]
Source [ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/qt-002.tar.Z]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
A toolkit for building user-space threads packages. Please note that
this is designed to facilitate building threads library packages; therefore,
it omits many higher-level functions. Documentation written in PostScript. |
| License: |
BSD style |
| Status: |
Active maintenance. Version 0.0.2 |
| Title: |
RexThreads |
| Author: |
Stephen Crane [jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk] |
| Repositories: |
Documentation [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.ps.gz]
Source [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.tar.gz]
|
| API: |
Non-standard |
| Description: |
User-space threads library. |
| License: |
LGPL |
| Status: |
Active maintenance (a set of C++ wrappers is currently under development).
Version ?? |
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