A process can relinquish the processor voluntarily without
blocking by calling sched_yield(). The process will then be
moved to the end of the queue for its static priority and a
new process gets to run.
Note
If the calling process is the only process in the
highest priority list at that time, this process will
continue to run after a call to sched_yield().
POSIX systems on which sched_yield() is available define
_POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING in
<unistd.h>
RETURN VALUE
On success, sched_yield()
returns 0. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
In the Linux implementation, sched_yield() always succeeds.
Programming for the real world
− POSIX.4 by Bill O. Gallmeister, O'Reilly
& Associates, Inc., ISBN 1-56592-074-0
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