PTHREAD_ATTR_GETDETACHSTATE(3P)

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NAME
pthread_attr_getdetachstate, pthread_attr_setdetachstate — get and set the detachstate attribute

SYNOPSIS

#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_attr_getdetachstate(const pthread_attr_t *attr,
    int *detachstate);
int pthread_attr_setdetachstate(pthread_attr_t *attr, int detachstate);

DESCRIPTION
The detachstate attribute controls whether the thread is created in a detached state. If the thread is created detached, then use of the ID of the newly created thread by the pthread_detach() or pthread_join() function is an error.

The pthread_attr_getdetachstate() and pthread_attr_setdetachstate() functions, respectively, shall get and set the detachstate attribute in the attr object.

For pthread_attr_getdetachstate(), detachstate shall be set to either PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED or PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.

For pthread_attr_setdetachstate(), the application shall set detachstate to either PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED or PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.

A value of PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED shall cause all threads created with attr to be in the detached state, whereas using a value of PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE shall cause all threads created with attr to be in the joinable state. The default value of the detachstate attribute shall be PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.

The behavior is undefined if the value specified by the attr argument to pthread_attr_getdetachstate() or pthread_attr_setdetachstate() does not refer to an initialized thread attributes object.

RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, pthread_attr_getdetachstate() and pthread_attr_setdetachstate() shall return a value of 0; otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.

The pthread_attr_getdetachstate() function stores the value of the detachstate attribute in detachstate if successful.

ERRORS
The pthread_attr_setdetachstate() function shall fail if:

EINVAL
    The value of detachstate was not valid

These functions shall not return an error code of [EINTR].

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

  Retrieving the detachstate Attribute

This example shows how to obtain the detachstate attribute of a thread attribute object.

    #include <pthread.h>

    pthread_attr_t thread_attr;
    int            detachstate;
    int            rc;

    /* code initializing thread_attr */
    ...

    rc = pthread_attr_getdetachstate (&thread_attr, &detachstate);
    if (rc!=0) {
        /* handle error */
        ...
    }
    else {
        /* legal values for detachstate are:
         * PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED or PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
         */
         ...
    }

APPLICATION USAGE
None.

RATIONALE
If an implementation detects that the value specified by the attr argument to pthread_attr_getdetachstate() or pthread_attr_setdetachstate() does not refer to an initialized thread attributes object, it is recommended that the function should fail and report an [EINVAL] error.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.

SEE ALSO
pthread_attr_destroy(), pthread_attr_getstacksize(), pthread_create()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <pthread.h>

COPYRIGHT
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