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Are these available for iPhone OS? The Threading Programming Guide mentions these but does not say if they are also relevant on iPhone OS.

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Yes. pthreads are available on the iPhone. However, Cocoa provides some nice abstractions for multi-threading applications.

Checkout Concurrency Programming Guide for the iPhone and their description of NSOperation, as a started.

If you really need threading, you can use the NSThread, which is basically an OO wrapper around pthreads. You should read the Threading Programming Guide, to understand how threading works in iPhone.

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Maybe you could give some pointers for those which you have found to be good ones?
JOM
Updated post with links!
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