From Newsgroup: comp.unix.programmer
On Sat, 31 May 2025 16:46:48 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
The CPU_* macros and sched_setaffinity() etc allow you to try and force a >given process to run on a given CPU/core , but is there a way to set the >affinity of a process yet to be created by fork() ? Eg if I have a parent >process running on CPU 0 can I make it so that the child will run on CPU 1 >before the child is created so that the child itself doesn't have to set
the affinity? I'm thinking of situations with fork-exec when the exec'd >binary won't set any affinity so the parent needs to do it for it.
Thanks for any help.
Ignore my post, I need to engage brain before posting next time. I just do
it after the fork, before the exec. Duh.
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