@node pthread.h
@section @file{pthread.h}

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/pthread.h.html}

Gnulib module: pthread-h

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This header file is missing on some platforms.
Minix 3.1.8, mingw 2.x, MSVC 14.
But the provided replacement covers only the essential POSIX threads API.
Furthermore it is just a dummy on some of these platforms:
Minix 3.1.8.
@item
This header pollutes the namespace with some broken macro
implementations for various functions such as @code{strtok_r} and
@code{gmtime_r}:
mingw 3.0.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This header file lacks the declaration of @code{pthread_atfork} on some
platforms:
IRIX 6.5.
@end itemize
