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PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER - get the IO_FLUSHER state

NAME  LIBRARY  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  RETURN VALUE  STANDARDS  HISTORY  SEE ALSO 

NAME

PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER − get the IO_FLUSHER state

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc−lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <linux/prctl.h> /* Definition of PR_* constants */
#include <sys/prctl.h>

int prctl(PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L);

DESCRIPTION

Return the IO_FLUSHER state of the caller. A value of 1 indicates that the caller is in the IO_FLUSHER state; 0 indicates that the caller is not in the IO_FLUSHER state.

The calling process must have the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability.

RETURN VALUE

On success, this call returns the boolean value described above. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

STANDARDS

Linux.

HISTORY

Linux 5.6.

SEE ALSO

prctl(2), PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER(2const)


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