/// <summary>
/// This attempts to shift your program (or thread in a multi-threaded program) to a higher priority and
/// enables a real-time scheduling. The priority parameter should be from 0 (the default) to 99 (the maximum).
/// This won’t make your program go any faster, but it will give it a bigger slice of time when other programs
/// are running. The priority parameter works relative to others – so you can make one program priority 1 and
/// another priority 2 and it will have the same effect as setting one to 10 and the other to 90
/// (as long as no other programs are running with elevated priorities)
/// </summary>
/// <param name="priority">The priority.</param>
public void SetThreadPriority(int priority)
{
priority = priority.Clamp(0, 99);
var result = WiringPi.piHiPri(priority);
if (result < 0)
{
HardwareException.Throw(nameof(Timing), nameof(SetThreadPriority));
}
}
/// <summary>
/// This is really nothing more than a simplified interface to the Posix threads mechanism that Linux supports.
/// See the manual pages on Posix threads (man pthread) if you need more control over them.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="worker">The worker.</param>
/// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">worker</exception>
public void CreateThread(ThreadWorker worker)
{
if (worker == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(worker));
}
var result = WiringPi.piThreadCreate(worker);
if (result != 0)
{
HardwareException.Throw(nameof(Timing), nameof(CreateThread));
}
}
