Next Generation POSIX Threads (NGPT)

• Userlevel library providing the POSIX threads API

• Uses a modified clone() interface

• Integrates into glibc as a LinuxThreads replacement

• NGPT 1.0 released June 2001

• NGPT 1.1.2 due to be released Jan 25 2002

• A solution for some markets, but implementation concerns by some mean not yet accepted into mainstream Linux