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PTHREAD_ATTR_SETDETACHSTATE(3)Linux Programmer's ManualPTHREAD_ATTR_SETDETACHSTATE(3)
pthread_attr_setdetachstate, pthread_attr_getdetachstate - set/get detach
state attribute in thread attributes object
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_attr_setdetachstate(pthread_attr_t *attr, int detachstate);
int pthread_attr_getdetachstate(pthread_attr_t *attr, int *detachstate);
Compile and link with -pthread.
The pthread_attr_setdetachstate() function sets the detach state attribute of
the thread attributes object referred to by attr to the value specified in
detachstate. The detach state attribute determines whether a thread created
using the thread attributes object attr will be created in a joinable or a
detached state.
The following values may be specified in detachstate:
PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED
Threads that are created using attr will be created in a detached
state.
PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
Threads that are created using attr will be created in a joinable
state.
The default setting of the detach state attribute in a newly initialized
thread attributes object is PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
The pthread_attr_getdetachstate() returns the detach state attribute of the
thread attributes object attr in the buffer pointed to by detachstate.
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero error
number.
pthread_attr_setdetachstate() can fail with the following error:
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in detachstate.
POSIX.1-2001.
See pthread_create(3) for more details on detached and joinable threads.
A thread that is created in a joinable state should eventually either be
joined using pthread_join(3) or detached using pthread_detach(3); see
pthread_create(3).
It is an error to specify the thread ID of a thread that was created in a
detached state in a later call to pthread_detach(3) or pthread_join(3).
See pthread_attr_init(3).
pthread_attr_init(3), pthread_create(3), pthread_detach(3), pthread_join(3),
pthreads(7)
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Linux 2010-02-03 PTHREAD_ATTR_SETDETACHSTATE(3)
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