%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ npth-&npth-version; NPth Introduction to NPth The NPth package contains a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading) inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. &lfs80_checked; &gcc7_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &npth-md5sum; Download size: &npth-size; Estimated disk space required: &npth-buildsize; Estimated build time: &npth-time; User Notes: Installation of NPth Install NPth by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install Contents Installed Program Installed Library Installed Directory npth-config libnpth.so None Short Descriptions npth-config is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the npth library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the npth library. npth-config libnpth.so contains the API functions used by the New Portable Threads Library. libnpth.so