Set Inherited Scheduling Policy

pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3THR)

Use pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3THR) to set the inherited scheduling policy.

An inherit value of PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED (the default) means that the scheduling policies defined in the creating thread are to be used, and any scheduling attributes defined in the pthread_create() call are to be ignored. If PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED is used, the attributes from the pthread_create() call are to be used.

Prototype:

int	pthread_attr_setinheritsched(pthread_attr_t *tattr, int inherit);

#include <pthread.h>

pthread_attr_t tattr;
int inherit;
int ret;

/* use the current scheduling policy */
ret = pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&tattr, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED);

Return Values

Returns zero after completing successfully. Any other returned value indicates that an error occurred. When either of the following conditions occurs, the function fails and returns the corresponding value.

EINVAL

An attempt was made to set tattr to a value that is not valid.

ENOTSUP

An attempt was made to set the attribute to an unsupported value.