'\" te .\" Copyright (c) 2008, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T .\" Portions Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved .\" Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Original documentation from The Open Group can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/. .\" The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. In the following statement, the phrase "this text" refers to portions of the system documentation. Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the Sun OS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html. This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. .TH sched_yield 3C "5 Feb 2008" "SunOS 5.11" "Standard C Library Functions" .SH NAME sched_yield \- yield processor .SH SYNOPSIS .LP .nf #include \fBint\fR \fBsched_yield\fR(\fBvoid\fR); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .sp .LP The \fBsched_yield()\fR function forces the running thread to relinquish the processor until the process again becomes the head of its process list. It takes no arguments. .SH RETURN VALUES .sp .LP If successful, \fBsched_yield()\fR returns \fB0\fR, otherwise, it returns \fB\(mi1\fR, and sets \fBerrno\fR to indicate the error condition. .SH ERRORS .sp .LP No errors are defined. .SH ATTRIBUTES .sp .LP See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS tab() box; lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) . \fBATTRIBUTE TYPE\fR\fBATTRIBUTE VALUE\fR _ Interface StabilityCommitted _ MT-LevelMT-Safe _ StandardSee \fBstandards\fR(5). .TE .SH SEE ALSO .sp .LP \fBlibrt\fR(3LIB), \fBsched.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)