Re: How do I raise a thread to realtime priority?

Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-12T22:08:20Z

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:53:57PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> In the 2.4 kernel headers, unistd.h had a _syscall3 that I could
> use to make an extern of the sys_sched_setscheduler raise a tasks
> priority to realtime. With 2.6, the _syscall3 has been replaced
> with static inlines. This all seems well.
>
> Since sys_sched_setscheduler is not in the unistd.h, should I add
> it to unistd.h? Is there a prefered method for exporting/inlining
> syscall entry points?

libc "exports syscall entry points" -- call sched_setscheduler().
That works on 2.4 and 2.6.

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