Champollion: a port of FSU Pthreads to Minix
Juan Carlos Diaz Martin <juancarl@unex.es> 09/August/1999

FSU Pthreads is a partial implementation of POSIX 1003.1c, better known as
Pthreads, originally designed as the run time system of GNAT (Gnu Ada 
Translation), the GNU Ada95 compiler. See
  http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/pthreads

Champollion is a port of FSU Pthreads to Minix Operating System. Up to where 
Minix permits, the 3.13 version of FSU Pthreads the one currently supported.
Though it pretends to be the Minix port of 3.13 FSU Pthreads, at this time
Champollion is distributed with a Release number 0.3.13 instead of 3.13. Why?

   1. Eventually, Minix users and us will decide if Champollion is mature 
      enough to keep up with the others official ports. We are experimenting.
   2. Champollion doesn't yet support the FSU Pthreads thread-safe TCP/IP
      socket interface. Work is in progress on this issue. The lack of 
      documentation on the Minix Networking is the main stumbling block. 

In spite of its current experimental status, Champollion do work. The battery
of examples of one of the best-selling books on POSIX threads, "Pthreads
Programming", by Nichols et al. (O'Reilly), runs under champollion without 
change. Most of these examples are provided in the examples/nichols
directory of this distribution with permission from the O'Reilly editor. 

The Champollion project home page is:
  http://atc.unex.es/jdiaz/anatome/contrib/champollion/champollion.html

Installation (first steps): Working as bin, make a champollion directory 
under /usr/local/src. Move champoll.tar.Z there and then unpack with
  zcat < champoll.tar.Z | tar xvfp -

A README file with details on installation and much additional information
will appear, along with three directories: 

  1. "minix"
     The patches to Minix 2.0.x source on time resolution and stack pointer
     As an alternative to the 2.0.0 patches, a Minix floppy ready to boot 
     Minix 2.0.0 from it

  2. "threads"
     The FSU Pthreads library

  3. "examples"
     A collection of multithreaded example programs

[the above was extracted from the main README file]