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From: rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a threads package for FreeBSD?
Date: 11 Nov 1995 19:06:12 -0800
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In article <30A40B34.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Not yet, but people are working on it right now.  We should probably see
>pthreads in 2.2-CURRENT (which can be FTP'd or sup'd) in a couple of
>weeks here.
>-- 
>						Jordan


FWIW, there is the MIT-pthreads release which builds and runs it's
examples without a hitch on -STABLE.  It's not a "package", but
it is a `package' :-)

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html

Cheers,
Russell