prevent linux thread from being interrupted by scheduler

Question

How do you tell the thread scheduler in linux to not interrupt your thread for any reason? I am programming in user mode. Does simply locking a mutex acomplish this? I wa

Answer 1

You can't. If you could what would prevent your thread from never releasing the request and starving other threads.

The best you can do is set your threads priority so that the scheduler will prefer it over lower priority threads.