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Taniwha on March 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comp.programming.threads FAQ (2001)

That's why POSIX (and posix threads aka pthreads) was invented

dboreham on March 20, 2021 [–]

In the olden days many OSes didn't have pthreads support, or had broken pthreads support. This is why NSPR was invented.

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