NGPT - Next Generation POSIX Threading
  Version 1.0.1 (31-Jul-2001)

  ABSTRACT

  NGPT is the user-level portion of a POSIX pthreads library 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 it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal
  mask and errno variable.

  On SMP machines, this library will use an M:N threading model if enabled
  resulting in significantly improved performance.

  IMPORTANT NOTICE: 
  This package is currently in BETA form.  It is intended to be
  used only in controlled testing environment. It should not be used
  in a production environment.


  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 2001 IBM Corporation <babt@us.ibm.com>
  Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library (see file COPYING); if not, write
  to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
  330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

  HOME AND DOCUMENTATION

  The documentation and latest release can be found on

  http://www.ibm.com/developer