freebsd-dev/lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3
Julian Elischer 0f7d684755 Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>
Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page.  The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.
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.Dd April 4, 1996
.Dt PTHREAD_EXIT 3
.Os BSD 4
.Sh NAME
.Nm pthread_exit
.Nd terminate the calling thread
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <pthread.h>
.Ft void
.Fn pthread_exit "void *value_ptr"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn pthread_exit
function terminates the calling thread and makes the value
.Fa value_ptr
available to any successful join with the terminating thread. Any
cancellation cleanup handlers that have been pushed and are not yet popped
are popped in the reverse order that they were pushed and then executed.
After all cancellation handlers have been executed, if the thread has any
thread-specific data, appropriate destructor functions are called in an
unspecified order. Thread termination does not release any application
visible process resources, including, but not limited to, mutexes and
file descriptors, nor does it perform any process level cleanup
actions, including, but not limited to, calling
.Fn atexit
routines that may exist.
.Pp
An implicit call to
.Fn pthread_exit
is made when a thread other than the thread in which
.Fn main
was first invoked returns from the start routine that was used to create
it. The function's return value serves as the thread's exit status.
.Pp
The behavior of
.Fn pthread_exit
is undefied if called from a cancellation handler or destructor function
that was invoked as the result of an implicit or explicit call to
.Fn pthread_exit .
.Pp
After a thread has terminated, the result of access to local (auto)
variables of the thread is undefined. Thus, references to local variables
of the exiting thread should not be used for the
.Fn pthread_exit
.Fa value_ptr
parameter value.
.Pp
The process will exit with an exit status of 0 after the last thread has
been terminated. The behavior is as if the implementation called
.Fn exit
with a zero argument at thread termination time.
.Pp
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn pthread_exit
function cannot return to its caller.
.Sh ERRORS
None.
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pthread_create 3 ,
.Xr pthread_join 3 ,
.Xr exit 2,
.Xr _exit 2
.Sh STANDARDS
.Fn pthread_exit
is expected to conform to IEEE
.Pq Dq Tn POSIX
Std 1003.1c when it is published.