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PTHREAD_EXIT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_EXIT(3P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
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corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
pthread_exit — thread termination
#include <pthread.h>
void pthread_exit(void *value_ptr);
The pthread_exit() function shall terminate the calling thread and
make the value value_ptr available to any successful join with the
terminating thread. Any cancellation cleanup handlers that have been
pushed and not yet popped shall be popped in the reverse order that
they were pushed and then executed. After all cancellation cleanup
handlers have been executed, if the thread has any thread-specific
data, appropriate destructor functions shall be called in an
unspecified order. Thread termination does not release any
application visible process resources, including, but not limited to,
mutexes and file descriptors, nor does it perform any process-level
cleanup actions, including, but not limited to, calling any atexit()
routines that may exist.
An implicit call to pthread_exit() is made when a thread other than
the thread in which main() was first invoked returns from the start
routine that was used to create it. The function's return value shall
serve as the thread's exit status.
The behavior of pthread_exit() is undefined if called from a
cancellation cleanup handler or destructor function that was invoked
as a result of either an implicit or explicit call to pthread_exit().
After a thread has terminated, the result of access to local (auto)
variables of the thread is undefined. Thus, references to local
variables of the exiting thread should not be used for the
pthread_exit() value_ptr parameter value.
The process shall exit with an exit status of 0 after the last thread
has been terminated. The behavior shall be as if the implementation
called exit() with a zero argument at thread termination time.
The pthread_exit() function cannot return to its caller.
No errors are defined.
The following sections are informative.
None.
None.
The normal mechanism by which a thread terminates is to return from
the routine that was specified in the pthread_create() call that
started it. The pthread_exit() function provides the capability for a
thread to terminate without requiring a return from the start routine
of that thread, thereby providing a function analogous to exit().
Regardless of the method of thread termination, any cancellation
cleanup handlers that have been pushed and not yet popped are
executed, and the destructors for any existing thread-specific data
are executed. This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 requires that cancellation
cleanup handlers be popped and called in order. After all
cancellation cleanup handlers have been executed, thread-specific
data destructors are called, in an unspecified order, for each item
of thread-specific data that exists in the thread. This ordering is
necessary because cancellation cleanup handlers may rely on thread-
specific data.
As the meaning of the status is determined by the application (except
when the thread has been canceled, in which case it is
PTHREAD_CANCELED), the implementation has no idea what an illegal
status value is, which is why no address error checking is done.
None.
exit(3p), pthread_create(3p), pthread_join(3p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, pthread.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
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Pages that refer to this page: pthread.h(0p), pthread_cancel(3p), pthread_create(3p)