1.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1998 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by John Birrell. 15.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JOHN BIRRELL AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man3/pthread_detach.3,v 1.18 2007/10/22 10:08:00 ru Exp $ 32.\" 33.Dd July 10, 2009 34.Dt PTHREAD_DETACH 3 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm pthread_detach 38.Nd detach a thread 39.Sh LIBRARY 40.Lb libpthread 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.In pthread.h 43.Ft int 44.Fn pthread_detach "pthread_t thread" 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Fn pthread_detach 48function is used to indicate to the implementation that storage for the 49thread 50.Fa thread 51can be reclaimed when the thread terminates. 52If 53.Fa thread 54has not terminated, 55.Fn pthread_detach 56will not cause it to terminate. 57The effect of multiple 58.Fn pthread_detach 59calls on the same target thread is unspecified. 60.Sh RETURN VALUES 61If successful, the 62.Fn pthread_detach 63function will return zero. 64Otherwise an error number will be returned to 65indicate the error. 66Note that the function does not change the value 67of 68.Va errno 69as it did for some drafts of the standard. 70These early drafts also passed a pointer to 71.Vt pthread_t 72as the argument. 73Beware! 74.Sh ERRORS 75The 76.Fn pthread_detach 77function will fail if: 78.Bl -tag -width Er 79.It Bq Er EINVAL 80The implementation has detected that the value specified by 81.Fa thread 82does not refer to a joinable thread. 83.It Bq Er ESRCH 84No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given 85thread ID, 86.Fa thread . 87.El 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr pthread_join 3 90.Sh STANDARDS 91The 92.Fn pthread_detach 93function conforms to 94.St -p1003.1-96 . 95