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diff --git a/gnu/packages/pth.scm b/gnu/packages/pth.scm index e7068a5240..211c0cf693 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/pth.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/pth.scm @@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/pth") (synopsis "Portable thread library") (description - "Pth is a portable library providing non-preemptive, priority-based + "GNU Pth is a portable library providing non-preemptive, priority-based scheduling for multiple execution threads. Each thread has its own program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. Threads are scheduled in a cooperative way, rather than in the standard preemptive way, such that they are managed according to priority and events. However, Pth -also features emulation of POSIX.1c threads (\"Pthreads\") for backwards +also features emulation of POSIX.1c threads (\"pthreads\") for backwards compatibility.") (license lgpl2.1+))) |