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This section describes the GNU C Library POSIX Threads implementation.
| • Creating and Destroying Threads: | ||
| • Thread-specific Data: | Support for creating and managing thread-specific data | |
| • Waiting with Explicit Clocks: | Functions for waiting with an explicit clock specification. | |
| • POSIX Semaphores: | Support for process and thread synchronization using semaphores | |
| • POSIX Barriers: | Support for process and thread synchronization using barriers | |
| • POSIX Spin Locks: | Support for process and thread synchronization using spinlocks | |
| • POSIX Mutexes: | Support for mutual exclusion | |
| • POSIX Threads Other APIs: | Other Standard functions | |
| • Non-POSIX Extensions: | Additional functions to extend POSIX Thread functionality |