Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > mozilla-nspr

\"NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating systemfacilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basicmemory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking. A goodportion of the library's purpose, and perhaps the primary purpose inthe Gromit environment, is to provide the underpinnings of the Java VM,more or less mapping the sys layer that Sun defines for the porting ofthe Java VM to various platforms. NSPR does go beyond that requirementin some areas and since it is also the platform independent layer formost of the servers produced by Netscape.\"