2.2 Attributes Objects

An attributes object is used to describe DECthreads objects. This description consists of the individual attribute values that are used to create an object. An attributes object is analogous to a type definition in a programming language; it describes details of the objects to be created.

When you create an object, you can accept the default attributes for that object or specify an attributes object that contains specific attributes that you have set. For a thread, you can also change certain attributes after thread execution starts-for example, you can change the thread's priority.

The following sections describe how to create and delete attributes objects, and the individual attributes that you can specify for different objects.