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 ); | 
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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.
POSIX.1-2001 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).
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 imit ==> 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
#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%x 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), pthreads(7)
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