PTHREAD_SETSPECIFIC(3P)

✨ PROLOG ✨

okay so before we even get into it — this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖 that's the whole vibe. but heads up bestie: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or honestly the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pthread_setspecific — thread-specific data management 🧵✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_setspecific(pthread_key_t key, const void *value);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, this one's a redirect — you gotta refer to pthread_getspecific(). it's giving "go ask my sibling, they have the whole story" 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay legal moment, we have to do this, stay with me 💜

portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. 🫡

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that's the whole page, you ate that, periodt ✨💖 and for the record, this was brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, filed under PTHREAD_SETSPECIFIC(3P) — mwah, bye bestie! 🎀🦋