#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
Fa thread
can be reclaimed when the thread terminates.
If
Fa 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:
Bq Er EINVAL
The implementation has detected that the value specified by
Fa thread
does not refer to a joinable thread.
Bq Er ESRCH
No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given
thread ID,
Fa thread .
SEE ALSO
pthread_join3
STANDARDS
The
pthread_detach ();
function conforms to
St -p1003.1-96 .
