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pthread_...hedpolicy(3) Library Functions Manualpthread_...hedpolicy(3)pthread_attr_setschedpolicy, pthread_attr_getschedpolicy - set/get scheduling policy attribute in thread attributes object
POSIX threads library (libpthread,-lpthread)
#include <pthread.h>int pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(pthread_attr_t *attr, intpolicy);int pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(const pthread_attr_t *restrictattr,int *restrictpolicy);
Thepthread_attr_setschedpolicy() function sets the scheduling policy attribute of the thread attributes object referred to byattr to the value specified inpolicy. This attribute determines the scheduling policy of a thread created using the thread attributes objectattr. The supported values forpolicy areSCHED_FIFO,SCHED_RR, andSCHED_OTHER, with the semantics described insched(7). Thepthread_attr_getschedpolicy() returns the scheduling policy attribute of the thread attributes objectattr in the buffer pointed to bypolicy. In order for the policy setting made bypthread_attr_setschedpolicy() to have effect when callingpthread_create(3), the caller must usepthread_attr_setinheritsched(3) to set the inherit-scheduler attribute of the attributes objectattr toPTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED.
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero error number.
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() can fail with the following error:EINVALInvalid value inpolicy. POSIX.1 also documents an optionalENOTSUPerror ("attempt was made to set the attribute to an unsupported value") forpthread_attr_setschedpolicy().For an explanation of the terms used in this section, seeattributes(7). ┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface│Attribute│Value│ ├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ │pthread_attr_getschedpolicy() │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
POSIX.1-2008.
glibc 2.0. POSIX.1-2001.
Seepthread_setschedparam(3).
pthread_attr_init(3),pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3),pthread_attr_setschedparam(3),pthread_create(3),pthread_setschedparam(3),pthread_setschedprio(3),pthreads(7),sched(7)
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