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"Detach" the thread identified by the specified `handle` such that when it terminates, the resources associated with that thread will automatically be reclaimed. The behavior is undefined unless `handle` was obtained by a call to `create` or `self`. Note that once a thread is "detached", it is no longer possible to `join` the thread to retrieve its exit status.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadutil.h>`

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static
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