freebsd/lib/libc/sys/rtprio.2

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.Dd July 23, 1994
.Dt RTPRIO 2
.Sh NAME
.Nm rtprio
.Nd examine or modify a process realtime or idle priority
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/rtprio.h>
.Ft int 
.Fn rtprio "int function" "pid_t pid" "struct rtprio *rtp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn rtprio
is used to lookup or change the realtime or idle priority of a process.

.Fa function
specifies the operation to be performed. RTP_LOOKUP to lookup the current priority, 
and RTP_SET to set the priority.
.Fa pid
specifies the process to be used, 0 for the current process.

.Fa *rtp
is a pointer to a struct rtprio which is used to specify the priority and priority type. 
This structure has the following form:
.Bd -literal
struct rtprio {
	u_short	type;
	u_short prio;
};
.Ed
.Pp
The value of the
.Nm type
field may be RTP_PRIO_REALTIME for realtime priorities,
RTP_PRIO_NORMAL for normal priorities, and RTP_PRIO_IDLE for idle priorities.
The priority specified by the
.Nm prio
field ranges between 0 and  
.Dv RTP_PRIO_MAX (usually 31) .
0 is the highest possible priority.

Realtime and idle priority is inherited through fork() and exec().

A realtime process can only be preempted by a process of equal or
higher priority, or by an interrupt; idle priority processes will run only
when no other real/normal priority process is runnable. Higher real/idle priority processes
preempt lower real/idle priority processes. Processes of equal real/idle priority are run round-robin.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn rtprio
will return 0 for success and -1 for all errors. The global variable
.Va errno
will be set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn rtprio
will fail if 
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The specified
.Fa prio
was out of range.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The calling process is not allowed to set the realtime priority. Only
root is allowed to change the realtime priority of any process, and non-root
may only change the idle priority of the current process.
.It Bq Er ESRCH
The specified process was not found.
.Sh AUTHOR
The original author was Henrik Vestergaard Draboel - hvd@terry.ping.dk. This
implementation in
.Tn FreeBSD
was substantially rewritten by David Greenman.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr nice 1 ,
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr rtprio 1 ,
.Xr setpriority 2 ,
.Xr nice 3 ,
.Xr renice 8