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Diffstat (limited to 'devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr b/devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr index 3fabc3295f3c..f8f4b7d45bc9 100644 --- a/devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/linuxthreads/pkg-descr @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ -Linux threads is an POSIX pthreads implementation using "kernel -threads". In this FreeBSD port, a kernel thread is started using -rfork (whereas in the original Linux implementation a kernel thread -is started using the Linux clone call). This implementaion provides -a so-called one-to-one mapping of threads to kernel schedulable -entities. For more information see about the original linux threads -implementation see: +LinuxThreads is an POSIX pthreads implementation using "kernel threads". In +this FreeBSD port, a kernel thread is started using rfork (whereas in the +original Linux implementation a kernel thread is started using the Linux clone +call). This implementaion provides a so-called one-to-one mapping of threads to +kernel schedulable entities. For more information see about the original +LinuxThreads implementation see: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/ + +Note that LinuxThreads has been integrated with the GNU C library (glibc) since +version 2.0, so the above URL points to dated information. |