#include <pthread.h>int pthread_attr_setinheritsched(pthread_attr_t *attr, int inheritsched);int pthread_attr_getinheritsched(pthread_attr_t *attr, int *inheritsched);
Compile and link with -pthread.
DESCRIPTION
The
pthread_attr_setinheritsched()
function sets the inherit scheduler attribute of the
thread attributes object referred to by
attr
to the value specified in
inheritsched.
The inherit scheduler attribute determines whether a thread created using
the thread attributes object
attr
will inherit its scheduling attributes from the calling thread
or whether it will take them from
attr.
The following values may be specified in
inheritsched:
PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED
Threads that are created using
attr
inherit scheduling attributes from the creating thread;
the scheduling attributes in
attr
are ignored.
PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED
Threads that are created using
attr
take their scheduling attributes from the values specified
by the attributes object.
The default setting of the inherit scheduler attribute in
a newly initialized thread attributes object is
PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED.
The
pthread_attr_getinheritsched()
returns the inherit scheduler attribute of the thread attributes object
attr
in the buffer pointed to by
inheritsched.
RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return 0;
on error, they return a non-zero error number.
ERRORS
pthread_attr_setinheritsched()
can fail with the following error:
EINVAL
Invalid value in
inheritsched.
POSIX.1-2001 also documents an optional
ENOTSUP
error ("attempt was made to set the attribute to an unsupported value") for
pthread_attr_setinheritsched().
As at glibc 2.8, if a thread attributes object is initialized using
pthread_attr_init(3),
then the scheduling policy of the attributes object is set to
SCHED_OTHER
and the scheduling priority is set to 0.
However, if the inherit scheduler attribute is then set to
PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED,
then a thread created using the attribute object
wrongly inherits its scheduling attributes from the creating thread.
This bug does not occur if either the scheduling policy or
scheduling priority attribute is explicitly set
in the thread attributes object before calling
pthread_create(3).
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