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Pthreads are a low-level, platform-dependent API for creating and managing threads on Unix-like systems. They are defined by the POSIX standard, which specifies a set of portable and consistent ...

There is a syscall every C programmer believes exists. It is the syscall that creates a thread. It does not exist. Linux has no sys_thread_create. It never had one. The kernel does not distinguish, at ...