pthread_detach question

Question

Till recently, I was under the impression that if you \"detach\" a thread after spawning it, the thread lives even after the \"main\" thread terminates.

But a litt

Answer 1

To quote the Linux Programmer's Manual:

The detached attribute merely determines the behavior of the system when the thread terminates; it does not prevent the thread from being terminated if the process terminates using exit(3) (or equivalently, if the main thread returns).

Also from the Linux Programmer's Manual:

To allow other threads to continue execution, the main thread should terminate by calling pthread_exit() rather than exit(3).