Soft Real-Time Programming with Linux

Listing 2

#include <pthread.h>

int start_thread_with_priority(pthread_t* thread, (*start_routine)(void*), void* arg)
{
  struct pthread_attr_t attr;
  struct sched_param param;
  
  pthread_attr_init(&attr);
  pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&attr, SCHED_RR);
  param.sched_priority = 50;
  pthread_attr_setschedparam(&attr, ¶m);

  return pthread_create(thread, &attr, start_routine, arg)
}