pthread_attr_setschedpolicy3

Usage

#include <pthread.h>

Library

POSIX threads library (libpthread, -lpthread)

Overview

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

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

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().

Attributes

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

Examples

See pthread_setschedparam(3).