PTHREAD_DETACH(3) BSD Library Functions Manual PTHREAD_DETACH(3)NAMEpthread_detach — detach a thread
LIBRARY
POSIX Threads Library (libpthread, -lpthread)
SYNOPSIS
#include <pthread.h>
int
pthread_detach(pthread_t thread);
DESCRIPTION
The pthread_detach() function is used to indicate to the implementation
that storage for the thread thread can be reclaimed when the thread ter‐
minates. If thread has not terminated, pthread_detach() will not cause
it to terminate. The effect of multiple pthread_detach() calls on the
same target thread is unspecified.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the pthread_detach() function will return zero. Otherwise
an error number will be returned to indicate the error. Note that the
function does not change the value of errno as it did for some drafts of
the standard. These early drafts also passed a pointer to pthread_t as
the argument. Beware!
ERRORS
The pthread_detach() function will fail if:
[EINVAL] The implementation has detected that the value speci‐
fied by thread does not refer to a joinable thread.
[ESRCH] No thread could be found corresponding to that speci‐
fied by the given thread ID, thread.
SEE ALSOpthread_join(3)STANDARDS
The pthread_detach() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996
(“POSIX.1”).
BSD July 10, 2009 BSD
