Destroying Attributes

Use pthread_attr_destroy(3C) to remove the storage that was allocated during initialization. The attribute object becomes invalid.

pthread_attr_destroy Syntax

int pthread_attr_destroy(pthread_attr_t *tattr);

#include <pthread.h>

pthread_attr_t tattr;
int ret;

/* destroy an attribute */
ret = pthread_attr_destroy(&tattr); 

pthread_attr_destroy Return Values

pthread_attr_destroy() returns zero after completing successfully. Any other return value indicates that an error occurred. If the following condition occurs, the function fails and returns the corresponding value.

Description: Indicates that the value of tattr was not valid.