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Suppose you’re not using a C runtime on Linux, and instead you’re programming against its system call API. It’s long-term and stable after all. Memory management and buffered I/O are easily solved, but a lot of software benefits from concurrency. It would be nice to also have thread spawning capability. This article will demonstrate a simple, practical, and robust approach to spawning and managing threads using only raw system calls. It only takes about a dozen lines of C, including 4 or so inli...