HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

pthread_key_create(3T) pthread_key_create(3T)

(Pthread Library)

RETURN VALUE

If successful, pthread_key_create()

and pthread_key_delete()

return zero. Otherwise, an

error number is returned to indicate the error (the

errno variable is not set).

ERRORS

If any of the following occur, the

pthread_key_create()

function returns the corresponding error

number:

[EINVAL] The value speciﬁed by key is invalid.

[EAGAIN] The necessary resources to create another thread-speciﬁc data key are not available,

or the total number of keys per process has exceeded

PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX

[ENOMEM] There is insufﬁcient memory available in which to create key.

For each of the following conditions, if the condition is detected, the

pthread_key_delete()

function

returns the corresponding error number:

[EINVAL] The value speciﬁed by key is invalid.

AUTHOR

pthread_key_create()

and pthread_key_delete() were derived from the IEEE POSIX

P1003.1c standard.