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What's pthread in Boost?

I found there are also a pthread in Boost library, is it the same thing as the posix pthread?

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boost threads(and other stuff like mutexes/locks/condition variables) are implemented on top of pthreads where that's available - which is most *nixes.

nos  2010-03-21 17:18:22

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