VMS Help DCE_THREADS, Thread Intro, General Threads Routines  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

   pthread_create            Creates a thread object and thread.

   pthread_detach            Marks a thread object for deletion.

   pthread_equal             Compares one thread identifier to another
                             thread identifier.

   pthread_exit              Terminates the calling thread.

   pthread_join              Causes the calling thread to wait for the
                             termination of a specified thread and detach
                             it.

   pthread_once              Calls an initialization routine to be
                             executed only once.

   pthread_self              Obtains the identifier of the current thread.