pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3) — Linux manual page

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NAME         top

       pthread_attr_setschedpolicy, pthread_attr_getschedpolicy -
       set/get scheduling policy attribute in thread attributes object

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pthread.h>

       int pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(pthread_attr_t *attr, int policy);
       int pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(const pthread_attr_t *attr, int *policy);

       Compile and link with -pthread.

DESCRIPTION         top

       The pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() function sets the scheduling
       policy attribute of the thread attributes object referred to by
       attr to the value specified in policy.  This attribute determines
       the scheduling policy of a thread created using the thread
       attributes object attr.

       The supported values for policy are SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, and
       SCHED_OTHER, with the semantics described in sched(7).

       The pthread_attr_getschedpolicy() returns the scheduling policy
       attribute of the thread attributes object attr in the buffer
       pointed to by policy.

       In order for the policy setting made by
       pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() to have effect when calling
       pthread_create(3), the caller must use
       pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3) to set the inherit-scheduler
       attribute of the attributes object attr to
       PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a
       nonzero error number.

ERRORS         top

       pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() can fail with the following error:

       EINVAL Invalid value in policy.

       POSIX.1 also documents an optional ENOTSUP error ("attempt was
       made to set the attribute to an unsupported value") for
       pthread_attr_setschedpolicy().

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).

       ┌───────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                      │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       │pthread_attr_getschedpolicy()  │               │         │
       └───────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

CONFORMING TO         top

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

EXAMPLES         top

       See pthread_setschedparam(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       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)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                          2020-06-09 PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCHEDPOLICY(3)

Pages that refer to this page: pthread_attr_init(3),  pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3),  pthread_attr_setschedparam(3),  pthread_attr_setscope(3),  pthread_getattr_default_np(3),  pthread_getattr_np(3),  pthread_setschedparam(3),  pthread_setschedprio(3)

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