PR_MCE_KILL(2const)

PR_MCE_KILL2const

Set the machine check memory corruption kill policy

Usage

#include <linux/prctl.h>  /* Definition of PR_* constants */
#include <sys/prctl.h>

int prctl(PR_MCE_KILL, long op, ...);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

Set the machine check memory corruption kill policy for the calling thread.

op is one of the following operations:

PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR
PR_MCE_KILL_SET

The policy is inherited by children.

Return value

On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

EINVAL

op is not a valid value.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Standards

Linux.

History

Linux 2.6.32.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.