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Chapter 29. Threads: Introduction > Background Details of the Pthreads API

29.2. Background Details of the Pthreads API

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several different threading APIs existed. In 1995, POSIX.1c standardized the POSIX threads API, and this standard was later incorporated into SUSv3.

Several concepts apply to the Pthreads API as a whole, and we briefly introduce these before looking in detail at the API.


  

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