/* Detach a thread. Copyright (C) 2000, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #include #include #include /* Indicate that the storage for THREAD can be reclaimed when it terminates. */ int pthread_detach (pthread_t thread) { struct __pthread *pthread; int err = 0; /* Lookup the thread structure for THREAD. */ pthread = __pthread_getid (thread); if (pthread == NULL) return ESRCH; __pthread_mutex_lock (&pthread->state_lock); switch (pthread->state) { case PTHREAD_JOINABLE: /* THREAD still running. Mark it as detached such that its resources can be reclaimed as soon as the thread exits. */ pthread->state = PTHREAD_DETACHED; /* Broadcast the condition. This will make threads that are waiting to join THREAD continue with hopefully disastrous consequences instead of blocking indefinitely. */ pthread_cond_broadcast (&pthread->state_cond); __pthread_mutex_unlock (&pthread->state_lock); break; case PTHREAD_EXITED: /* THREAD has already exited. Make sure that nobody can reference it anymore, and mark it as terminated. */ __pthread_mutex_unlock (&pthread->state_lock); assert (pthread->stack); __pthread_stack_dealloc (pthread->stackaddr, pthread->stacksize); pthread->stack = 0; __pthread_dealloc (pthread); break; case PTHREAD_TERMINATED: /* Pretend THREAD wasn't there in the first place. */ __pthread_mutex_unlock (&pthread->state_lock); err = ESRCH; break; default: /* Thou shalt not detach non-joinable threads! */ __pthread_mutex_unlock (&pthread->state_lock); err = EINVAL; break; } return err; }