If I don’t care about the return status of my thread, would I need to have a pthread_exit?
I’m wondering if there might be some subtle resource problems associated with not calling pthread_exit in my datached pthreads.
Thanks.
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If I don’t care about the return status of my thread, would I need to have a pthread_exit?
I’m wondering if there might be some subtle resource problems associated with not calling pthread_exit in my datached pthreads.
Thanks.
You don’t have to call
pthread_exit(). Returning from the thread function would work equally well, and will not leak any resources (of course, you still have to ensure that your code doesn’t have any leaks).