I also humbly suggest the excellent "Programming with POSIX Threads" (Addison -Wesley/Author: Butenhof) as well as the excellent series from the late W. Richard Stevens, particularly "UNIX Network Programming: Volume One" which covers pthreads and sockets (threaded servers).

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