PTHREAD_DETACH(3) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_DETACH(3)NAMEpthread_detach - detach a thread
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
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. 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!
ERRORSpthread_detach() will fail if:
[EINVAL] The implementation has detected that 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 ALSOpthread_join(3)STANDARDSpthread_detach() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX'').
OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9