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What is the difference between NPTL and POSIX threads?

What is the basic difference between NPTL and POSIX threads? How have these two evolved? Answer POSIX threads (pthread) is not an implementation, it is a API specification (a standard, on paper, in english) of several functions whose name starts with pthread_ and which are defined in <pthread.h> header. POSIX is also a set of specifications. NPTL is now inside

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