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Re:OpenVMS State of the Port to x86_64 [pdf] by andrewbinstock on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:49AM (#14786698)
If you're talking about Linux specifically, that's not quite accurate history. Prior to POSIX threads, Linux had it's own threading model--Linux Threads--which frankly was terrible. They added the full POSIX later on in part b/c the Linux threading was so awful. [1] has more detail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxThreads

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Re:OpenVMS State of the Port to x86_64 [pdf] by wogna on Monday July 17, 2017 @05:48AM (#14786953)
True that, but I was talking about the POSIX async I/O API: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/aio.... I don't know much about the LinuxThreads-era.
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Re:OpenVMS State of the Port to x86_64 [pdf] by cesarb on Monday July 17, 2017 @08:36AM (#14787894)
Both LinuxThreads and the current NPTL are implementations of POSIX threads. NPTL is closer to the standard, but if your code doesn't need the stricter conformance, it could run on either with no changes.
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