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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 [[email protected]] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| 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] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| 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] 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 [[email protected]] |
| Repositories: | Documentation [http://turnercom.com/jdk/linux3.html] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| Repositories: | Documentation [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.ps.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 [[email protected]] |
| 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: | PCthreads |
| Author: | Michael T. Peterson [[email protected]] |
| Repositories: | Documentation [http://www.aa.net/~mtp/PCthreads.html]
Source [ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/pthreads-1.0.tar.gz] |
| API: | POSIX 1003.1c |
| Description: | User-space pthreads library; includes non-blocking select(), read(), and write(). Man pages included. Requires DCEThreads. |
| License: | LGPL |
| Status: | ???? Version 1.0 |
| Title: | Provenzano Pthreads |
| Author: | Christopher A. Provenzano [[email protected]] |
| 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 [[email protected]] |
| Repositories: | Documentation [ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/1993/05/UW-CSE-93-05-06.PS.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 [[email protected]] |
| Repositories: | Documentation [ftp://gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/lwp.ps.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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