Pthread

Releasing resources used by a pthread

To release the resources - memory for stack and householding - it is necessary to call either pthread_detach or pthread_join. The resources are not released when the pthread exits without one of these calls.

• pthread_join is called by the process or another thread.
• pthread_detach is typically called by the thread itself to release the resources when the thread terminates

Links

• Tutorial on pthreads from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Good)
• Pthread example: Worker poll with eventfd