osx man page for thread_exit

THREAD_EXIT(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					    THREAD_EXIT(9)

NAME

     thread_exit -- abandon current thread context

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/proc.h>

     void
     thread_exit(void);

DESCRIPTION

     The thread_exit() function implements the machine independent prelude to a thread shutdown.  It will not return, and will result in a call to
     mi_switch(9) to schedule some other thread.

     thread_exit() arranges to free all the resources of the thread, specifically the kernel stack.

     To protect the runqueue(9), thread_exit() must be called with the sched_lock mutex held.

SEE ALSO

     mi_switch(9), mutex(9), runqueue(9), sleep(9)

BSD
								   July 5, 2002 							       BSD