Threads Library

The pthreads library defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants, which support applications with requirements for multiple flows of control, called threads, within a single process.

There are about 100 thread procedures, all with the prefix pthread_ and they can be categorized into four groups:

Group	Description
Thread management	Thread management, creating and joining threads
Mutexes	Mutexes
Condition variables	Condition variables
Synchronization	Synchronization between threads using read/write locking

Note: In this topic we will focus only on "Thread management".