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PTHREAD_ATTR_INIT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_ATTR_INIT(3)
pthread_attr_init, pthread_attr_destroy - initialize and destroy
thread attributes object
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_attr_init(pthread_attr_t *attr);
int pthread_attr_destroy(pthread_attr_t *attr);
Compile and link with -pthread.
The pthread_attr_init() function initializes the thread attributes
object pointed to by attr with default attribute values. After this
call, individual attributes of the object can be set using various
related functions (listed under SEE ALSO), and then the object can be
used in one or more pthread_create(3) calls that create threads.
Calling pthread_attr_init() on a thread attributes object that has
already been initialized results in undefined behavior.
When a thread attributes object is no longer required, it should be
destroyed using the pthread_attr_destroy() function. Destroying a
thread attributes object has no effect on threads that were created
using that object.
Once a thread attributes object has been destroyed, it can be
reinitialized using pthread_attr_init(). Any other use of a
destroyed thread attributes object has undefined results.
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero
error number.
POSIX.1 documents an ENOMEM error for pthread_attr_init(); on Linux
these functions always succeed (but portable and future-proof
applications should nevertheless handle a possible error return).
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌───────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├───────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│pthread_attr_init(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
│pthread_attr_destroy() │ │ │
└───────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
The pthread_attr_t type should be treated as opaque: any access to
the object other than via pthreads functions is nonportable and
produces undefined results.
The program below optionally makes use of pthread_attr_init() and
various related functions to initialize a thread attributes object
that is used to create a single thread. Once created, the thread
uses the pthread_getattr_np(3) function (a nonstandard GNU extension)
to retrieve the thread's attributes, and then displays those
attributes.
If the program is run with no command-line argument, then it passes
NULL as the attr argument of pthread_create(3), so that the thread is
created with default attributes. Running the program on Linux/x86-32
with the NPTL threading implementation, we see the following:
$ ulimit -s # No stack limit ==> default stack size is 2MB
unlimited
$ ./a.out
Thread attributes:
Detach state = PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
Scope = PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM
Inherit scheduler = PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED
Scheduling policy = SCHED_OTHER
Scheduling priority = 0
Guard size = 4096 bytes
Stack address = 0x40196000
Stack size = 0x201000 bytes
When we supply a stack size as a command-line argument, the program
initializes a thread attributes object, sets various attributes in
that object, and passes a pointer to the object in the call to
pthread_create(3). Running the program on Linux/x86-32 with the NPTL
threading implementation, we see the following:
$ ./a.out 0x3000000
posix_memalign() allocated at 0x40197000
Thread attributes:
Detach state = PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED
Scope = PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM
Inherit scheduler = PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED
Scheduling policy = SCHED_OTHER
Scheduling priority = 0
Guard size = 0 bytes
Stack address = 0x40197000
Stack size = 0x3000000 bytes
Program source
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* To get pthread_getattr_np() declaration */
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define handle_error_en(en, msg) \
do { errno = en; perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)
static void
display_pthread_attr(pthread_attr_t *attr, char *prefix)
{
int s, i;
size_t v;
void *stkaddr;
struct sched_param sp;
s = pthread_attr_getdetachstate(attr, &i);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getdetachstate");
printf("%sDetach state = %s\n", prefix,
(i == PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED) ? "PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED" :
(i == PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE) ? "PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE" :
"???");
s = pthread_attr_getscope(attr, &i);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getscope");
printf("%sScope = %s\n", prefix,
(i == PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM) ? "PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM" :
(i == PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS) ? "PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS" :
"???");
s = pthread_attr_getinheritsched(attr, &i);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getinheritsched");
printf("%sInherit scheduler = %s\n", prefix,
(i == PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED) ? "PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED" :
(i == PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED) ? "PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED" :
"???");
s = pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(attr, &i);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getschedpolicy");
printf("%sScheduling policy = %s\n", prefix,
(i == SCHED_OTHER) ? "SCHED_OTHER" :
(i == SCHED_FIFO) ? "SCHED_FIFO" :
(i == SCHED_RR) ? "SCHED_RR" :
"???");
s = pthread_attr_getschedparam(attr, &sp);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getschedparam");
printf("%sScheduling priority = %d\n", prefix, sp.sched_priority);
s = pthread_attr_getguardsize(attr, &v);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getguardsize");
printf("%sGuard size = %d bytes\n", prefix, v);
s = pthread_attr_getstack(attr, &stkaddr, &v);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_getstack");
printf("%sStack address = %p\n", prefix, stkaddr);
printf("%sStack size = 0x%zx bytes\n", prefix, v);
}
static void *
thread_start(void *arg)
{
int s;
pthread_attr_t gattr;
/* pthread_getattr_np() is a non-standard GNU extension that
retrieves the attributes of the thread specified in its
first argument */
s = pthread_getattr_np(pthread_self(), &gattr);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_getattr_np");
printf("Thread attributes:\n");
display_pthread_attr(&gattr, "\t");
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); /* Terminate all threads */
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
pthread_t thr;
pthread_attr_t attr;
pthread_attr_t *attrp; /* NULL or &attr */
int s;
attrp = NULL;
/* If a command-line argument was supplied, use it to set the
stack-size attribute and set a few other thread attributes,
and set attrp pointing to thread attributes object */
if (argc > 1) {
int stack_size;
void *sp;
attrp = &attr;
s = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_init");
s = pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_setdetachstate");
s = pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&attr, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_setinheritsched");
stack_size = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0);
s = posix_memalign(&sp, sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), stack_size);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "posix_memalign");
printf("posix_memalign() allocated at %p\n", sp);
s = pthread_attr_setstack(&attr, sp, stack_size);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_setstack");
}
s = pthread_create(&thr, attrp, &thread_start, NULL);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_create");
if (attrp != NULL) {
s = pthread_attr_destroy(attrp);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_attr_destroy");
}
pause(); /* Terminates when other thread calls exit() */
}
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(3), pthread_attr_setdetachstate(3),
pthread_attr_setguardsize(3), pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3),
pthread_attr_setschedparam(3), pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3),
pthread_attr_setscope(3), pthread_attr_setstack(3),
pthread_attr_setstackaddr(3), pthread_attr_setstacksize(3),
pthread_create(3), pthread_getattr_np(3),
pthread_setattr_default_np(3), pthreads(7)
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Pages that refer to this page: pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(3), pthread_attr_setdetachstate(3), pthread_attr_setguardsize(3), pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3), pthread_attr_setschedparam(3), pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3), pthread_attr_setscope(3), pthread_attr_setstack(3), pthread_attr_setstackaddr(3), pthread_attr_setstacksize(3), pthread_create(3), pthread_getattr_default_np(3), pthread_getattr_np(3), pthread_setschedparam(3), pthread_setschedprio(3), pthreads(7), sigevent(7)