vireo | Preemptible green threads in C for Linux | Architecture library

vireo is a C library typically used in Architecture applications. vireo has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Vireo is a tiny C library implementing preemptible green threads (greenlets) for Linux. It is designed as an example of how to implement userspace threading, that is, without special kernel support or awareness of multiple threads. It is also a good example of how to use the setcontext(3) family of functions. Vireo’s focus is on readability and pedagogy, not performance or complete correctness. In particular, the library does no error-checking for most system calls. This library was written for MIT’s operating systems class, and the examples are taken from the examples / test cases in JOS, the teaching OS used in that class. The library itself is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.