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

Yes, the detached threads will die after return 0.

From the NOTES section of man pthread_detach

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 equiv‐alently, if the main thread returns)