Programming

Hi All,
I am creating detached threads using pthread_create(). As we know, we need to pass the thread attribute structure as an argument to the pthread_Create() API.
I want to know what is the good time to destroy this thread attributes using pthread_attr_destroy() call. Also, I want to know whether we need to call the API pthread_attr_init(&attr_thread) and pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr_thread, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED) every time we are creating a detached thread using pthread_create(&threadId, &attr_thread, (void *)ssp_handleAsynchSoipData, NULL).
Presently in my case I am creating and destroying the attribute structure immediately after the call to pthread_create(). But I am susspecting if this is the cause of the crash I am getting in my program.
Has anybody come across such problem. Please suggest
Thanks

pthread_attr_destroy() destroys the thread attributes object, reclaiming its storage space. Accorded to POSIX.1-2008 the results of otherwise referencing the object after it has been destroyed are undefined.

On some implementations it has no effect on the threads previously created with that object. Therefore destroying the threads attribute object immediately after the call to pthread_create() does not cause a crash. Depends on your particular implementation.

OK. One more wuestion. What is the affect if I use just "return", intead of pthread_exit() in my thread function body.