| Name: pthreads-win32 |
| URL: http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ |
| Version: 2.9.1.0 |
| Date: 2012-08-21 |
| License: LGPL 2.1 |
| License File: COPYING |
| Security Critical: no |
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| This library is included only to allow external users of the Native Client SDK |
| to build PPAPI plugins using the pthreads interface. This is convenient during |
| the process of developing or porting a Native Client application. |
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| This library is not shipped with Chromium. |
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| Description: |
| From http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ |
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| The POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard defines an application programming interface |
| (API) for writing multithreaded applications. This interface is known more |
| commonly as pthreads. A good number of modern operating systems include a |
| threading library of some kind: Solaris (UI) threads, Win32 threads, DCE |
| threads, DECthreads, or any of the draft revisions of the pthreads standard. |
| The trend is that most of these systems are slowly adopting the pthreads |
| standard API, with application developers following suit to reduce porting |
| woes. |
| |
| Win32 does not, and is unlikely to ever, support pthreads natively. This |
| project seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality solution to this |
| problem. |
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| Local Modifications: |
| * Removed execute permissions on some source files. |
