Manpages - pthread_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(const 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.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see *attributes*(7).

POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

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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