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The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the
requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C
standard.
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The thrd_join() function shall join the thread identified by thr with the current thread by blocking until the
other thread has terminated. If the parameter res is not a null pointer, thrd_join() shall store the thread's exit
status in the integer pointed to by res. The termination of the other thread shall synchronize with the completion of the
thrd_join() function. The application shall ensure that the thread identified by thr has not been previously detached
or joined with another thread.
The results of multiple simultaneous calls to thrd_join() specifying the same target thread are undefined.
The behavior is undefined if the value specified by the thr argument to thrd_join() refers to the calling
thread.
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is unspecified whether a zombie thread counts against {PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX}.
If thr refers to a thread that was created using pthread_create()
or via a SIGEV_THREAD notification and the thread terminates, or has already terminated, by returning from its start routine, the
behavior of thrd_join() is undefined. If thr refers to a thread that terminates, or has already terminated, by
calling pthread_exit() or by being cancelled, the behavior of
thrd_join() is undefined.
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The thrd_join() function shall return thrd_success on success or thrd_error if the request could not be
honored.
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is implementation-defined whether thrd_join() detects deadlock situations; if it does detect them, it shall return
thrd_error when one is detected.
The thrd_join() function provides a simple mechanism allowing an application to wait for a thread to terminate. After the
thread terminates, the application may then choose to clean up resources that were used by the thread. For instance, after
thrd_join() returns, any application-provided stack storage could be reclaimed.
The thrd_join() or thrd_detach() function should eventually be called
for every thread that is created using thrd_create() so that storage associated
with the thread may be reclaimed.
The thrd_join() function cannot be used to obtain the exit status of a thread that was created using pthread_create() or via a SIGEV_THREAD notification and which terminates by returning
from its start routine, or of a thread that terminates by calling pthread_exit(), because such threads have a void * exit status, instead of the
int that thrd_join() returns via its res argument.
The thrd_join() function cannot be used to obtain the exit status of a thread that terminates by being cancelled because
it has no way to indicate that a thread was cancelled. (The pthread_join()
function does this by returning a reserved void * exit status; it is not possible to reserve an int value for this
purpose without introducing a conflict with the ISO C standard.) The standard developers considered adding a
thrd_canceled enumeration constant that thrd_join() would return in this case. However, this return would be
unexpected in code that is written to conform to the ISO C standard, and it would also not solve the problem that threads
which use only ISO C <threads.h> interfaces (such as ones created by third
party libraries written to conform to the ISO C standard) have no way to handle being cancelled, as the ISO C standard
does not provide cancellation cleanup handlers.
The thrd_join() function is not affected by signal handlers for the reasons stated in XRAT B.2.3 Error Numbers.