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<concept id="GUID-EB286BFD-6A84-5F12-8CC5-1A347685634A" xml:lang="en"><title>Thread

Termination</title><shortdesc>Describes the effects caused by a thread termination.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>The death of a thread (and any subsequent notifications etc.) is effectively

just an indication that the thread will never execute any more code; it does

not guarantee that the operating system has yet finished removing the thread. </p>

<p>When a thread terminates, the operating system cleans up all resources

still allocated to the thread; this includes closing any sessions which it

had open. Closing a session involves notifying the other party in the session

that the thread has disconnected so that it can do its own cleanup; the operating

system needs to keep the dead thread's data structures until all of this disconnection

activity has finished. </p>

<p>If a thread terminates, there may be a period of time during which any

attempt to create a new thread of the <i>same</i> name fails with <codeph>KErrAlreadyExists</codeph>. </p>

<p><b>Related API</b></p>

<p><xref href="GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5.dita#GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5/GUID-6C840907-C3F7-34B7-97DB-CEDBA68EA277"><apiname>RThread::Create()</apiname></xref></p>