NAME
pthread_detach
- detach a thread
LIBRARY
POSIX Thread Library (libpthread, -lpthread)
SYNOPSIS
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 terminates.
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.
ERRORS
pthread_detach(
)
shall fail if:
- [
EINVAL
] -
The value specified by
thread
does not refer to a joinable thread.
- [
ESRCH
] -
No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given
thread ID,
thread
.
SEE ALSO
pthread_join(3)
STANDARDS
pthread_detach(
)
conforms to
ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX.1'') .