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-nPth is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive threads implementation.
+npth (New GNU Portable Threads Library)
-In contrast to GNU Pth is is based on the system's standard threads implementation.
-This allows the use of libraries which are not compatible to GNU Pth.
-Experience with a Windows Pth emulation showed that this is a solid way to provide a co-routine based framework.
+nPth is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive
+threads implementation.
+
+In contrast to GNU Pth is is based on the system's standard threads
+implementation. This allows the use of libraries which are not compatible
+to GNU Pth. Experience with a Windows Pth emulation showed that this
+is a solid way to provide a co-routine based framework.
This library is required to compile GnuPG 2.1.