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SCHED_SETSCHEDULER(2)	    BSD	System Calls Manual	 SCHED_SETSCHEDULER(2)

NAME
     sched_setscheduler, sched_getscheduler -- set/get scheduling policy and
     scheduler parameters

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sched.h>

     int
     sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy,
	 const struct sched_param *param);

     int
     sched_getscheduler(pid_t pid);

DESCRIPTION
     The sched_setscheduler() system call sets the scheduling policy and
     scheduling	parameters of the process specified by pid to policy and the
     parameters	specified in the sched_param structure pointed to by param,
     respectively.  The	value of the sched_priority member in the param	struc-
     ture must be any integer within the inclusive priority range for the
     scheduling	policy specified by policy.

     In	this implementation, if	the value of pid is negative the system	call
     will fail.

     If	a process specified by pid exists and if the calling process has per-
     mission, the scheduling policy and	scheduling parameters will be set for
     the process whose process ID is equal to pid.

     If	pid is zero, the scheduling policy and scheduling parameters are set
     for the calling process.

     In	this implementation, the policy	of when	a process can affect the
     scheduling	parameters of another process is specified in IEEE Std
     1003.1b-1993 ("POSIX.1") as a write-style operation.

     The scheduling policies are in _sched.h_:

     [SCHED_FIFO]   First-in-first-out fixed priority scheduling with no round
		    robin scheduling;

     [SCHED_OTHER]  The	standard time sharing scheduler;

     [SCHED_RR]	    Round-robin	scheduling across same priority	processes.

     The sched_param structure is defined in _sched.h_:

	   struct sched_param {
		   int sched_priority;	   /* scheduling priority */
	   };

     The sched_getscheduler() system call returns the scheduling policy	of the
     process specified by pid.

     If	a process specified by pid exists and if the calling process has per-
     mission, the scheduling parameters	for the	process	whose process ID is
     equal to pid are returned.

     In	this implementation, the policy	of when	a process can obtain the
     scheduling	parameters of another process are detailed in IEEE Std
     1003.1b-1993 ("POSIX.1") as a read-style operation.

     If	pid is zero, the scheduling parameters for the calling process will be
     returned.	In this	implementation,	the sched_getscheduler system call
     will fail if pid is negative.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is	returned; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno	is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS
     On	failure	errno will be set to the corresponding value:

     [ENOSYS]		The system is not configured to	support	this function-
			ality.

     [EPERM]		The requesting process doesn not have permission as
			detailed in IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 ("POSIX.1").

     [ESRCH]		No process can be found	corresponding to that speci-
			fied by	pid.

     [EINVAL]		The value of the policy	argument is invalid, or	one or
			more of	the parameters contained in param is outside
			the valid range	for the	specified scheduling policy.

SEE ALSO
     sched_get_priority_max(2),	sched_get_priority_min(2), sched_getparam(2),
     sched_rr_get_interval(2), sched_setparam(2), sched_yield(2)

STANDARDS
     The sched_setscheduler() and sched_getscheduler() system calls conform to
     IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 ("POSIX.1").

BSD				March 12, 1998				   BSD

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