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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" Language and formatting clean-ups
.\" Added notes on /proc files
.\"
-.TH MSGOP 2 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH MSGOP 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8"
.SH NAME
msgrcv, msgsnd \- System V message queue operations
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/msg.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int msgsnd(int " msqid ", const void " msgp [. msgsz "], size_t " msgsz ,
.BI " int " msgflg );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "ssize_t msgrcv(int " msqid ", void " msgp [. msgsz "], size_t " msgsz \
", long " msgtyp ,
.BI " int " msgflg );
@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ system calls are used to send messages to,
and receive messages from, a System\ V message queue.
The calling process must have write permission on the message queue
in order to send a message, and read permission to receive a message.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I msgp
argument is a pointer to a caller-defined structure
of the following general form:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct msgbuf {
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct msgbuf {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
The
.I mtext
field is an array (or other structure) whose size is specified by
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ system call appends a copy of the message pointed to by
to the message queue whose identifier is specified
by
.IR msqid .
-.PP
+.P
If sufficient space is available in the queue,
.BR msgsnd ()
succeeds immediately.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ This check is necessary to prevent an unlimited number of zero-length
messages being placed on the queue.
Although such messages contain no data,
they nevertheless consume (locked) kernel memory.
-.PP
+.P
If insufficient space is available in the queue, then the default
behavior of
.BR msgsnd ()
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ is specified in
.IR msgflg ,
then the call instead fails with the error
.BR EAGAIN .
-.PP
+.P
A blocked
.BR msgsnd ()
call may also fail if:
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ is never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a
signal handler, regardless of the setting of the
.B SA_RESTART
flag when establishing a signal handler.)
-.PP
+.P
Upon successful completion the message queue data structure is updated
as follows:
.IP \[bu] 3
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ system call removes a message from the queue specified by
and places it in the buffer
pointed to by
.IR msgp .
-.PP
+.P
The argument
.I msgsz
specifies the maximum size in bytes for the member
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ the system call fails returning \-1 with
.I errno
set to
.BR E2BIG .
-.PP
+.P
Unless
.B MSG_COPY
is specified in
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ then the first message in the queue with the lowest type less than or
equal to the absolute value of
.I msgtyp
will be read.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I msgflg
argument is a bit mask constructed by ORing together zero or more
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ from
To truncate the message text if longer than
.I msgsz
bytes.
-.PP
+.P
If no message of the requested type is available and
.B IPC_NOWAIT
isn't specified in
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ is never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a
signal handler, regardless of the setting of the
.B SA_RESTART
flag when establishing a signal handler.)
-.PP
+.P
Upon successful completion the message queue data structure is updated
as follows:
.IP
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ value (less than 0 or greater than the system value
The system does not have enough memory to make a copy of the
message pointed to by
.IR msgp .
-.PP
+.P
.BR msgrcv ()
can fail with the following errors:
.TP
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ and this kernel was configured without
.BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE .
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
-.PP
+.P
The
.B MSG_EXCEPT
and
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ their definitions can be obtained by defining the
feature test macro.
.SH HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I msgp
argument is declared as \fIstruct msgbuf\ *\fP in
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ using the
.BR msgctl (2)
.B IPC_SET
operation.
-.PP
+.P
The implementation has no intrinsic system-wide limits on the
number of message headers
.RB ( MSGTQL )
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ of whether that message was at the ordinal position
This bug is fixed
.\" commit 4f87dac386cc43d5525da7a939d4b4e7edbea22c
in Linux 3.14.
-.PP
+.P
Specifying both
.B MSG_COPY
and
@@ -542,18 +542,18 @@ The program below demonstrates the use of
.BR msgsnd ()
and
.BR msgrcv ().
-.PP
+.P
The example program is first run with the \fB\-s\fP option to send a
message and then run again with the \fB\-r\fP option to receive a
message.
-.PP
+.P
The following shell session shows a sample run of the program:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
.RB "$" " ./a.out \-s"
sent: a message at Wed Mar 4 16:25:45 2015
-.PP
+.P
.RB "$" " ./a.out \-r"
message received: a message at Wed Mar 4 16:25:45 2015
.EE