Hi Bert, Thanks for looking the page over. [...] >> When a detached thread terminates, >> its resources are automatically released back to the system without >> the need for another thread to join with the terminated the thread. > One 'the' too many. Fixed, thanks. >> Attempting to detach an already detached thread results >> in unspecified behavior. > Now you have three: undefined, unpredictable, and unspecified. Good call. "unpredictable" has now disappeared from pthread_join.3. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html