NAME
sched_yield —
yield processor
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sched.h>
int
sched_yield(void);
DESCRIPTION
Thesched_yield()
system call forces the running process to relinquish the processor until it
again becomes the head of its process list. It takes no arguments.
RETURN VALUES
The sched_yield() function returns the
value 0 if successful; 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 functionality.
STANDARDS
The sched_yield() system call conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993
(“POSIX.1b”).