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authorjlam <jlam>2002-08-01 05:18:48 +0000
committerjlam <jlam>2002-08-01 05:18:48 +0000
commit4e5082d18c124c73be43e5f6f06ecb0b7792479c (patch)
tree926c4281d385d3849f3cee287628fa019063b149 /devel/pth/DESCR
parent87d21a6435791c3a72d25eef6784b7a291fa3d9a (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-4e5082d18c124c73be43e5f6f06ecb0b7792479c.tar.gz
Merge changes to enable hard sycalls from devel/pth-syscall into devel/pth.
Bump the PKGREVISION to 1.
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@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@ provides non-preemptive scheduling for multiple threads of execution
("multithreading") inside server 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.
+
+This version makes use of the --enable-syscall-hard option that provides
+replacement syscalls in libpthread. The function gives the appearance of
+some preemptiveness as it provides new syscall entry points.