1.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3 84306 2001-10-01 16:09:29Z ru $
2.Dd January 17, 1999
3.Dt PTHREAD_CANCEL 3
4.Os
5.Sh NAME
6.Nm pthread_cancel
7.Nd cancel execution of a thread
8.Sh LIBRARY
9.Lb libc_r

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46.Dv NULL .
47.Sh RETURN VALUES
48If successful, the
49.Fn pthread_cancel
50functions will return zero.
51Otherwise an error number will be returned to
52indicate the error.
53.Sh ERRORS
54.Fn pthread_cancel
55will fail if:
56.Bl -tag -width Er
57.It Bq Er ESRCH
58No thread could be found corresponding to that specified by the given
59thread ID.
60.El
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr pthread_cleanup_pop 3 ,
63.Xr pthread_cleanup_push 3 ,
64.Xr pthread_exit 3 ,
65.Xr pthread_join 3 ,
66.Xr pthread_setcancelstate 3 ,
67.Xr pthread_setcanceltype 3 ,
68.Xr pthread_testcancel 3
69.Sh STANDARDS
70.Fn pthread_cancel
71conforms to
72.St -p1003.1-96 .
73.Sh AUTHORS
74This man page was written by
75.An David Leonard Aq d@openbsd.org
76for the
77.Ox
78implementation of
79.Fn pthread_cancel .