POSIX Threads [1] are those created, managed, and synchronizedfollowing the POSIX standard API. POSIX stands for “Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix].”
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Padua, D. (2011). POSIX Threads (Pthreads). In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_447
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