1bb8a4204SJohn Birrell.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1998 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>. 20f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" All rights reserved. 30f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 40f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 50f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 60f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" are met: 70f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 80f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 90f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 100f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 110f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 120f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 130f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 140f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" This product includes software developed by John Birrell. 150f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 160f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 170f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" without specific prior written permission. 180f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 190f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JOHN BIRRELL AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 200f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 210f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 220f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 230f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 240f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 250f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 260f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 270f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 280f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 290f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 300f7d6847SJulian Elischer.\" 317f3dea24SPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$ 32fbc400a6SNik Clayton.\" 330f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Dd April 4, 1996 340f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Dt PTHREAD_DETACH 3 350f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Os BSD 4 360f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh NAME 370f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Nm pthread_detach 380f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Nd detach a thread 39d8a78688SAlexey Zelkin.Sh LIBRARY 40d8a78688SAlexey Zelkin.Lb libc_r 410f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh SYNOPSIS 420f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fd #include <pthread.h> 430f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Ft int 440f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach "pthread_t thread" 450f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh DESCRIPTION 460f7d6847SJulian ElischerThe 470f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 480f7d6847SJulian Elischerfunction is used to indicate to the implementation that storage for the 490f7d6847SJulian Elischerthread 500f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fa thread 51c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearncan be reclaimed when the thread terminates. 52c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnIf 530f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fa thread 540f7d6847SJulian Elischerhas not terminated, 550f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 56c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearnwill not cause it to terminate. 57c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnThe effect of multiple 580f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 590f7d6847SJulian Elischercalls on the same target thread is unspecified. 600f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh RETURN VALUES 610f7d6847SJulian ElischerIf successful, the 620f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 63c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearnfunction will return zero. 64c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnOtherwise an error number will be returned to 65c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearnindicate the error. 66c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnNote that the function does not change the value 67c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearnof errno as it did for some drafts of the standard. 68c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnThese early drafts 69c6ff3a1bSSheldon Hearnalso passed a pointer to pthread_t as the argument. 70c6ff3a1bSSheldon HearnBeware! 710f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh ERRORS 720f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 730f7d6847SJulian Elischerwill fail if: 740f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Bl -tag -width Er 750f7d6847SJulian Elischer.It Bq Er EINVAL 760f7d6847SJulian ElischerThe implementation has detected that the value specified by 770f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fa thread 780f7d6847SJulian Elischerdoes not refer to a joinable thread. 790f7d6847SJulian Elischer.It Bq Er ESRCH 800f7d6847SJulian ElischerNo thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given 810f7d6847SJulian Elischerthread ID, 820f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fa thread . 830f7d6847SJulian Elischer.El 840f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Pp 850f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh SEE ALSO 860f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Xr pthread_join 3 870f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Sh STANDARDS 880f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Fn pthread_detach 89bb8a4204SJohn Birrellconforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE 900f7d6847SJulian Elischer.Pq Dq Tn POSIX 918ac3b85eSAlexander LangerStd 1003.1 Second Edition 1996-07-12. 92