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Add a note about not touching errno and warn about previous drafts of the standard which changed the level of indirection to the thread argument. POSIX had a bit of trouble deciding what to do. So anyone coding to both draft 4 and draft 10 (the final draft) will get burnt by this function. I did. Grrr.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1998 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>.
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.\" This product includes software developed by John Birrell.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.Dd April 4, 1996
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.Dt PTHREAD_DETACH 3
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pthread_detach
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.Nd detach a thread
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <pthread.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn pthread_detach "pthread_t thread"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn pthread_detach
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function is used to indicate to the implementation that storage for the
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thread
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.Fa thread
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can be reclaimed when the thread terminates. If
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.Fa thread
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has not terminated,
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.Fn pthread_detach
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will not cause it to terminate. The effect of multiple
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.Fn pthread_detach
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calls on the same target thread is unspecified.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If successful, the
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.Fn pthread_detach
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function will return zero. Otherwise an error number will be returned to
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indicate the error. Note that the function does not change the value
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of errno as it did for some drafts of the standard. These early drafts
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also passed a pointer to pthread_t as the argument. Beware!
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn pthread_detach
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will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The implementation has detected that the value specified by
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.Fa thread
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does not refer to a joinable thread.
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given
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thread ID,
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.Fa thread .
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.El
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.Pp
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr pthread_join 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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.Fn pthread_detach
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conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE
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.Pq Dq Tn POSIX
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Std 1003.1 Second Edition 1996-07-12
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