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diff --git a/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn b/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn
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@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ First of all, see [BtsFiling](http://www.vmlinux.org/twikihttp://LOCATIONHurd/Bt
 
 ## <a name="Missing_pthreads"> Missing pthreads </a>
 
-Nothing. We don't have pthreads yet (It's being worked on).
+You can try out Neal Walfields implementation of libpthreads. It will server as our pthreads library until "the one pthreads that will rule them all" in [[GLibC]] has nativ support in the Hurd. Quote is from the mailing lists by Roland [[McGrath]].
+
+Neal's lastest tar balls of libpthreads is available at:
+
+* <ftp://web.walfield.org/pub/people/neal/hurd/libpthread/>
 
 ## <a name="Undefined_PIPE_BUF"> </a> Undefined PIPE\_BUF
 
@@ -30,6 +34,10 @@ If you get Bad File Descriptor error when trying to read from a file (or accessi
 
 Every unconditionalized use of PATH\_MAX is a POSIX incompatibility. If there is no upper limit on the length of a path, this symbol is not defined in any header file. Instead, you need to either use a different implementation that does not rely on the length of a string or use sysconf() to query the length at runtime. If sysconf() returns -1, you have to use realloc() to allocate the needed memory dynamically.
 
+## <a name="MAX_PATH"> </a> MAX\_PATH
+
+see PATH\_MAX
+
 ## <a name="MAXHOSTNAMELEN"> </a> MAXHOSTNAMELEN
 
 see PATH\_MAX