> They also 'standardised' threads which were hardly common usage.
Didn't the POSIX standard do that, as opposed to the ANSI C standard?
Well, yes, for operating systems that implement POSIX. Which doesn't account for all of them, last I checked.
Sorry no, I was referring to the C11 multi threading stuff.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/thread
They are not exactly the same as POSIX threads which were standardised in 1995.