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37 .Nd receive a message from a message queue
43 .Fn msgrcv "int msqid" "void *msgp" "size_t msgsz" "long msgtyp" "int msgflg"
47 function receives a message from the message queue specified in
49 and places it into the user-defined structure pointed to by
51 This structure must contain a first field of type
53 that will indicate the user-defined type of the message.
54 The remaining fields will contain the contents of the message.
55 The following is an example of what this user-defined structure might
59 long mtype; /* message type */
60 char mtext[1]; /* body of message */
65 is an integer greater than 0 that can be used to select messages.
67 is an array of bytes, with size up to the system limit
72 has one of the following meanings:
77 The first message of type
83 The first message on the queue will be received.
87 The first message of the lowest message type that is
88 less than or equal to the absolute value of
94 specifies the maximum length of the requested message.
95 If the received message has a length greater than
97 it will be silently truncated if the
101 otherwise an error will be returned.
103 If no matching message is present on the message queue specified by
107 depends on whether the
116 will immediately return a value of \-1 and set
122 is not set, the calling process will block until:
125 A message of the requested type becomes available on the message queue.
127 The message queue is removed, in which case \-1 will be returned and
132 A signal is received and caught.
139 If a message is successfully received, the data structure associated with
141 is updated as follows:
145 is set to the pid of the caller.
148 is set to the current time.
154 Upon successful completion,
156 returns the number of bytes received into the
158 field of the structure pointed to by
160 Otherwise, \-1 is returned, and
162 set to indicate the error.
168 A matching message was received, but its size was greater than
175 The calling process does not have read access to the message queue.
177 There is no message of the requested type available on the message queue,
184 points to an invalid address.
186 The message queue identifier
188 is removed from the system.
190 The system call was interrupted by the delivery of a signal.
193 is not a valid message queue identifier
195 The message queue was removed while
197 was waiting for a message of the requested type to become available in it.
203 The queue does not contain a message of the desired type and
214 system call conforms to
217 Message queues appeared in the first release of