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pthread_detach
—
detach a thread
#include
<pthread.h>
int
pthread_detach
(pthread_t
thread);
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.
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!
The pthread_detach
() function will fail
if:
The pthread_detach
() function conforms to
ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (“POSIX.1”).
April 4, 1996 | macOS 14.6 |