attr Thread attributes object whose inherit scheduling attribute is to be modified. inheritsched New value for the inherit scheduling attribute. Valid values are as follows: PTHREAD_INHERIT_ The created thread inherits the SCHED scheduling policy and associated scheduling attributes of the thread calling pthread_create(). Any scheduling attributes in the attributes object specified by the pthread_create() attr argument are ignored during thread creation. This is the default value. PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_ The scheduling policy and associated SCHED scheduling attributes of the created thread are set to the corresponding values from the attribute object specified by the pthread_create() attr argument.