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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2016-11-11 17:08:54 -0500 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2016-11-12 06:58:01 +0700 |
| commit | a4e7722e77085d7954632f2ab4390ef1f034af76 (patch) | |
| tree | b8a98d830f79018ad7e82761e72175739a855196 /libraries/npth | |
| parent | e4dcf4b50896dd0c6c25b079c611c6882271d1cf (diff) | |
libraries/npth: Update README.
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| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/npth/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/npth/README b/libraries/npth/README index d55d3a43ebafc..b89f596996616 100644 --- a/libraries/npth/README +++ b/libraries/npth/README @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ -nPth is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive threads implementation. +npth (New GNU Portable Threads Library) -In contrast to GNU Pth is is based on the system's standard threads implementation. -This allows the use of libraries which are not compatible to GNU Pth. -Experience with a Windows Pth emulation showed that this is a solid way to provide a co-routine based framework. +nPth is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive +threads implementation. + +In contrast to GNU Pth is is based on the system's standard threads +implementation. This allows the use of libraries which are not compatible +to GNU Pth. Experience with a Windows Pth emulation showed that this +is a solid way to provide a co-routine based framework. This library is required to compile GnuPG 2.1. |