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Return the value of the `detachedState` attribute of this object. A value of `e_CREATE_JOINABLE` indicates that a thread must be joined after it terminates to clean up its resources; a value of `e_CREATE_DETACHED` (the only other legal value) indicates that the resources will be cleaned up automatically upon thread termination, and that the thread must not be joined.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadattributes.h>`

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detachedState() const;
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