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+<H4>POSIX Threads for Windows – REFERENCE - <A HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32">Pthreads-w32</A></H4>
+<P><A HREF="index.html">Reference Index</A></P>
+<P><A HREF="#toc">Table of Contents</A></P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc0" NAME="sect0">Name</A></H2>
+<P>pthread_detach - put a running thread in the detached state
+</P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc1" NAME="sect1">Synopsis</A></H2>
+<P><B>#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;</B>
+</P>
+<P><B>int pthread_detach(pthread_t </B><I>th</I><B>);</B>
+</P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc2" NAME="sect2">Description</A></H2>
+<P><B>pthread_detach</B> puts the thread <I>th</I> in the detached
+state. This guarantees that the resources consumed by <I>th</I> will
+be freed immediately when <I>th</I> terminates. However, this
+prevents other threads from synchronizing on the termination of <I>th</I>
+using <B>pthread_join</B>. If, when <B>pthread_detach</B> is called,
+<I>th</I> has already terminated, all of <I>th</I>'s remaining
+resources will be freed.</P>
+<P>A thread can be created initially in the detached state, using the
+<B>detachstate</B> attribute to <A HREF="pthread_create.html"><B>pthread_create</B>(3)</A>
+. In contrast, <B>pthread_detach</B> applies to threads created in
+the joinable state, and which need to be put in the detached state
+later.
+</P>
+<P>After <B>pthread_detach</B> completes, subsequent attempts to
+perform <B>pthread_join</B> on <I>th</I> will fail. If another thread
+is already joining the thread <I>th</I> at the time <B>pthread_detach</B>
+is called, <I>th</I> will be detached and <B>pthread_join</B> will
+eventually return when <I>th</I> terminates but may not return with
+<I>th</I>'s correct return code.
+</P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc3" NAME="sect3">Return Value</A></H2>
+<P>On success, 0 is returned. On error, a non-zero error code is
+returned.
+</P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc4" NAME="sect4">Errors</A></H2>
+<DL>
+ <DT><B>ESRCH</B>
+ </DT><DD>
+ No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by <I>th</I>
+ </DD><DT>
+ <B>EINVAL</B>
+ </DT><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.5cm">
+ the thread <I>th</I> is already in the detached state
+ </DD></DL>
+<H2>
+<A HREF="#toc5" NAME="sect5">Author</A></H2>
+<P>Xavier Leroy &lt;Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr&gt;
+</P>
+<P>Modified by Ross Johnson for use with Pthreads-w32.</P>
+<H2><A HREF="#toc6" NAME="sect6">See Also</A></H2>
+<P><A HREF="pthread_create.html"><B>pthread_create</B>(3)</A> ,
+<A HREF="pthread_join.html"><B>pthread_join</B>(3)</A> ,
+<A HREF="pthread_attr_init.html"><B>pthread_attr_setdetachstate</B>(3)</A>
+</P>
+<HR>
+<P><A NAME="toc"></A><B>Table of Contents</B></P>
+<UL>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect0" NAME="toc0">Name</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect1" NAME="toc1">Synopsis</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect2" NAME="toc2">Description</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect3" NAME="toc3">Return
+ Value</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect4" NAME="toc4">Errors</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><A HREF="#sect5" NAME="toc5">Author</A>
+ </P>
+ <LI><P><A HREF="#sect6" NAME="toc6">See Also</A>
+ </P>
+</UL>
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