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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-05-12 09:21:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-05-14 20:45:28 +0200 |
| commit | 77dab50a680da7682f356afdb89eb72673ac46e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 97933ef1fa256933acf6bdf15ac73272cc25e10d /man7 | |
| parent | 225d97f29e0752288f5d3f50e5eebc491567c4ef (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-77dab50a680da7682f356afdb89eb72673ac46e0.tar.gz | |
sched.7: Rework summary text describing sched_setattr(2) and sched_getattr(2)
Note that these APIs are a superset of sched_setscheduler(2)
and sched_getscheduler(2).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/sched.7 | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index d70390fe2a..e13d113787 100644 --- a/man7/sched.7 +++ b/man7/sched.7 @@ -69,14 +69,18 @@ Set the CPU affinity of a specified thread. Get the CPU affinity of a specified thread. .TP .BR sched_setattr (2) -(Linux-specific) -A generalized API for setting the scheduling policy and parameters -of a specified thread. +Set the scheduling policy and parameters of a specified thread. +This (Linux-specific) system call provides a superset of the functionality of +.BR sched_setscheduler (2) +and +.BR sched_setparam (2). .TP .BR sched_getattr (2) -(Linux-specific) -A generalized API for fetching the scheduling policy and parameters -of a specified thread. +Fetch the scheduling policy and parameters of a specified thread. +This (Linux-specific) system call provides a superset of the functionality of +.BR sched_getscheduler (2) +and +.BR sched_getparam (2). .\" .SS Scheduling policies The scheduler is the kernel component that decides which runnable thread |