How to wait for multiple threads simultaneously?

Hello,

I'd like to ask whether Linux provides an effective way to wait for
multiple thread's end. Using pthread_join, I can only wait for one
thread at a time. Microsoft provides WaitForMultipleObject for doing
this , how about glibc or POSIX?

An even harder question, how can I wait for one thread's end and one
file descriptor(e.g STDIN_FILENO) to be readable simultaneously? -- If
either one of the two conditions becomes fulfilled, the other one must
quit its waiting status immediately as if no wait operation was
carried
out.

Thank you.
.

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