Index: ossp-pkg/pth/ANNOUNCE
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+   ____  _   _
+  |  _ \| |_| |__
+  | |_) | __| '_ \                    ``Only those who attempt
+  |  __/| |_| | | |                     the absurd can achieve
+  |_|    \__|_| |_|                     the impossible.''
+
+  GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
+  Version 1.4
+
+  Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
+  which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
+  threads of execution (aka "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.
+
+  The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e., the
+  threads are managed and dispatched by a priority- and event-driven
+  non-preemptive scheduler. The intention is that this way both better
+  portability and run-time performance is achieved than with preemptive
+  scheduling. The event facility allows threads to wait until various
+  types of internal and external events occur, including pending I/O on
+  file descriptors, asynchronous signals, elapsed timers, pending I/O
+  on message ports, thread and process termination, and even results of
+  customized callback functions.
+
+  Pth also provides an optional emulation API for POSIX.1c threads
+  ("Pthreads") which can be used for backward compatibility to existing
+  multithreaded applications.
+
+  Pth 1.4 has an even more extensive support for auto-configuring
+  the package to work on the different Unix platforms without the
+  requirement for the end user to manually adjust the package.
+  Additionally the underlying thread creation and dispatching mechanism
+  was greatly enhanced and cleaned up, too. With this, version 1.4 now
+  was successfully built and tested on numerous Unix platforms, ranging
+  from the major ones like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDI,
+  Solaris, HPUX, Tru64, AIX, IRIX, UnixWare and SCO, to more esoteric
+  flavors like SINIX, ReliantUNIX, ISC, SCO, NCR, AmigaOS, Rhapsody
+  (MacOS X), FTX, AUX and Win32/Cygwin.
+  
+  Additionally the auto-configuration mechanism allows GNU Pth to
+  automatically adjusts itself to run also on mostly all remaining Unix
+  platforms, including ancient versions for which a multi-threading
+  environment never existed before. This is especially achieved in Pth
+  by not using any assembly code or platform specific solutions and by
+  using a very tricky but portable thread creation fallback approach
+  which will be published in great detail on the USENIX 2000 Annual
+  Conference this summer.
+
+  http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
+  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/
+                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
+                                       rse@engelschall.com
+                                       www.engelschall.com
+