# POSIX Threads API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-threads-api/  
**Provider:** UNIX System Call — https://apis.io/providers/unix/  
**Base URL:** system://unix/pthreads  
**Documentation:** https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pthreads.7.html

POSIX Threads API is one of 11 APIs that [UNIX System Call](https://apis.io/providers/unix/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Concurrency, Mutexes, Pthreads, Synchronization, and Threads. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

POSIX threads (pthreads) interface for creating and managing threads, mutexes, condition variables, and thread-specific data.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_create.html
- **APIReference** — https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pthreads.7.html
- **APIReference** — https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man0/pthread.h.0p.html
- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/pthread_create.html

## Other UNIX System Call APIs (10)

- [File System Operations API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-system-operations-api/)
- [Process Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/process-management-api/)
- [Interprocess Communication API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/interprocess-communication-api/)
- [Memory Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/memory-management-api/)
- [System Information API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/system-information-api/)
- [I/O Multiplexing API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/io-multiplexing-api/)
- [POSIX Semaphores API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-semaphores-api/)
- [POSIX Message Queues API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-message-queues-api/)
- [Terminal and Device I/O API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/terminal-and-device-io-api/)
- [File Locking API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-locking-api/)

## Tags

Concurrency, Mutexes, Pthreads, Synchronization, Threads

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