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+.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1998 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>.
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd April 4, 1996
+.Dt PTHREAD_DETACH 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pthread_detach
+.Nd detach a thread
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libpthread
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In pthread.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn pthread_detach "pthread_t thread"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn pthread_detach
+function is used to indicate to the implementation that storage for the
+thread
+.Fa thread
+can be reclaimed when the thread terminates.
+If
+.Fa thread
+has not terminated,
+.Fn pthread_detach
+will not cause it to terminate.
+The effect of multiple
+.Fn pthread_detach
+calls on the same target thread is unspecified.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If successful, the
+.Fn pthread_detach
+function will return zero.
+Otherwise an error number will be returned to
+indicate the error.
+Note that the function does not change the value
+of errno as it did for some drafts of the standard.
+These early drafts
+also passed a pointer to pthread_t as the argument.
+Beware!
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn pthread_detach
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The implementation has detected that the value specified by
+.Fa thread
+does not refer to a joinable thread.
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given
+thread ID,
+.Fa thread .
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr pthread_join 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn pthread_detach
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-96 .