02-20-2009
Many thanks for your reply
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I'm wondering though, what priority is it being reduced from? Did it have ludicriously high priority in the first place, to halt your system like that? What user was your GUI running it as?
The main app's priority is -2 with a ROUND_RR scheduling policy,and it must be run by root user,or it won't work (i cant change this).If i remember well,it's the highest priority i can see using the "top" command,so this explains why my system halted (does it?).
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Lastly, I must wonder precisely by which mechanism this recordmydesktop process was ever started if not fork/exec
Before,i started it calling the "system" function,but after some readings i found out that it's not a suggested way to run external programs,for some problems related to the shell it's based on,so i passed to fork/exec.
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sched_setparam
sched_setparam(3C) Standard C Library Functions sched_setparam(3C)
NAME
sched_setparam - set scheduling parameters
SYNOPSIS
#include <sched.h>
int sched_setparam(pid_t pid, const struct sched_param *param);
DESCRIPTION
The sched_setparam() function sets the scheduling parameters of the process specified by pid to the values specified by the sched_param
structure pointed to by param. The value of the sched_priority member in the sched_param structure is any integer within the inclusive pri-
ority range for the current scheduling policy of the process specified by pid. Higher numerical values for the priority represent higher
priorities. If the value of pid is negative, the behavior of the sched_setparam() function is unspecified.
If a process specified by pid exists and if the calling process has permission, the scheduling parameters will be set for the process whose
process ID is equal to pid. The real or effective user ID of the calling process must match the real or saved (from exec(2)) user ID of
the target process unless the effective user ID of the calling process is 0. See Intro(2).
If pid is zero, the scheduling parameters will be set for the calling process.
The target process, whether it is running or not running, resumes execution after all other runnable processes of equal or greater priority
have been scheduled to run.
If the priority of the process specified by the pid argument is set higher than that of the lowest priority running process and if the
specified process is ready to run, the process specified by the pid argument preempts a lowest priority running process. Similarly, if the
process calling sched_setparam() sets its own priority lower than that of one or more other non-empty process lists, then the process that
is the head of the highest priority list also preempts the calling process. Thus, in either case, the originating process might not receive
notification of the completion of the requested priority change until the higher priority process has executed.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the sched_setparam() function returns 0.
If the call to sched_setparam() is unsuccessful, the priority remains unchanged, and the function returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The sched_setparam() function will fail if:
EINVAL One or more of the requested scheduling parameters is outside the range defined for the scheduling policy of the specified pid.
EPERM The requesting process does not have permission to set the scheduling parameters for the specified process, or does not have the
appropriate privilege to invoke sched_setparam().
ESRCH No process can be found corresponding to that specified by pid.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE |ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Standard |See standards(5). |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Intro(2), exec(2), librt(3LIB), sched.h(3HEAD), sched_getparam(3C), sched_getscheduler(3C), sched_setscheduler(3C), attributes(5), stan-
dards(5)
SunOS 5.11 1 Apr 2008 sched_setparam(3C)