NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT

Except for files with internal markings to the contrary, copyright to
all the material in this directory and all its subdirectories belongs
to the Florida State University.  Most of this code was produced by
FSU students and faculty under the POSIX/Ada Real-Time (PART) project,
funded by the Ada Joint Program Office under the Ada Technology
Insertion Program, through the U.S. Army Communications Electronics
Command, Software Engineering Directorate, subcontracted through the
Telos Corporation.

PART project members have included Ted Baker (Principal Investigator),
Ted Giering (Chief Programmer), Pratit Santiprabhob (Research
Associate), Offer Pazy (Consultant), and Ganesh Rangarajan, R. Ramesh,
Frank Mueller, Teguh Ghazalie, Viresh Rustagi, and Seung-jin Moon
(Graduate Research Assistants).

This software is still under development, and contains known bugs.
The user assumes all risks associated with its use.

This subdirectory contains a library implementation of the
POSIX 1003.4a/D6 draft standard for multiple threads of control within
POSIX processes, known for short as Pthreads.  This is implemented
over SunOS for the SPARC microprocessor (SunOS is a trademark of Sun
Microsystems, Inc., and SPARC is a trademark of SPARC International,
Inc).  This was originally based on the C threads library of Eric
Cooper [1].  This library was modified to support Pthreads syntax and
non-preemptive priority scheduling on the Motorola MC680x0 family of
processors by Ganesh Rangarajan [2].  R. Ramesh and Ted Giering ported
this library to the SPARC processor, and R. Ramesh merged the two
levels of scheduling entities provided by C threads into one and added
further Pthreads features.  Frank Mueller modified the resulting
library to support preemptive scheduling, per-thread signals, and
other features.  Viresh Rustagi implemented single-thread blocking I/O
and refined the context switch.  Details of the design and
implementation can be found in the literature [3,4].

Ted Giering
September 16, 1992


References

[1] E. Cooper and R. Draves. C Threads. Technical Report CMU-CS-88-154,
	Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
	1988.

[2] Ganesh Rangarajan. A Library Implementation of {POSIX} Threads. July
	1991.  Master's Project Report, Florida State University
	Department of Computer Science.

[3] Frank Mueller. Implementing {POSIX} Threads under UNIX:
	Description of Work in Progress. In "Proceedings of the 
	Second Software Engineering Research Forum", November 1992.
	To appear.

[4] Frank Mueller. A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads under
	UNIX. In Proceedings of the USENIX Conference, Winter 1993.
	To appear.