learning threads on linux

Question

Linux is a new platform to me. I\'ve coded on Windows in c++ for a number of years and have become comfortable with multithreading on that platform.

Along comes C++

Answer 1

Regarding WaitForMultipleObjects, this is generally called a Barrier Sync. Boost has an implementation called barrier. It uses conditional variables to implement it, in posix its a pthread_cond_t

Here is an answer I left recently explaining barrier sync.