PTHREADETACH(3)        BSD Library Functions Manual        PTHREADETACH(3)

NAME
     pthreaddetach -- detach a thread

SYNOPSIS
     ##include <>

     int
     pthreaddetach(pthreadt thread);

DESCRIPTION
     The pthreaddetach() 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, pthreaddetach() will not cause
     it to terminate.  The effect of multiple pthreaddetach() calls on the
     same target thread is unspecified.

RETURN VALUES
     If successful,  the pthreaddetach() function will return zero.  Other-
     wise 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 pthreadt
     as the argument.  Beware!

ERORS
     pthreaddetach() 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 ALSO
     pthreadjoin(3)

STANDARDS
     pthreaddetach() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX.1'').

BSD                              April 4, 1996                             BSD