pthread_attr_setschedpolicy, pthread_attr_getschedpolicy - set/get scheduling policy attribute in thread
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(), pthread_attr_getschedpolicy() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Description
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.
Errors
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().
Examples
See pthread_setschedparam(3).
History
glibc 2.0. POSIX.1-2001.
Library
POSIX threads library (libpthread, -lpthread)
Name
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy, pthread_attr_getschedpolicy - set/get scheduling policy attribute in thread
attributes object
Return Value
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero error number.
See Also
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) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<pthread.h>intpthread_attr_setschedpolicy(pthread_attr_t*attr,intpolicy);intpthread_attr_getschedpolicy(constpthread_attr_t*restrictattr,int*restrictpolicy);