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  NGPT - Next Generation POSIX Threading
  Version 2.2.1 (20-Mar-2003)

  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: 
  Release 1.1.0 is the first release of the "UNSTABLE" tree of the future NGPT 2.0.
  
  As an UNSTABLE RELEASE, this release is not suitable for use in a production 
  environment, however, it should be noted that we have done fairly extensive testing, 
  so problems are unlikely.  If you do encounter any problems with this release
  please post them to the NGPT website and the development team will address them.


  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 2001 IBM Corporation <[email protected]>
  Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ralf S. Engelschall <[email protected]>

  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://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads