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

pthread_detach does not do what you think it does - it indicates to the implementation that the space the thread with the specified ID is using can be reclaimed as soon as it terminates, ie. no pthread_join operation will be performed on it.

All threads are terminated once the process containing them is terminated.