joinable and detachable threads?

[StOoZ]

im pretty new to threads , and reading the following tutorial :
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

I cant really figure out what joinable and detachable threads are, can anyone enlighten that point?

10x

[dwhitney67]

I once asked a similar question, and received some excellent feedback from Stroyan. Here's the link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5082255&postcount=4