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Suspend execution of the current thread until the thread specified by `threadHandle` terminates, and reclaim any system resources associated with the `threadHandle`. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise. If the optionally specified `status` is not 0, load into the `status` the value returned by the specified `thread`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadutilimpl_pthread.h>`

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static
int
join(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslmt/ThreadUtilImpl-04/Handle.adoc[Handle]& threadHandle,
    void** status = (void**)0);
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