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37 .TH MSGCTL 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
39 msgctl \- System V message control operations
42 .B #include <sys/types.h>
43 .B #include <sys/ipc.h>
44 .B #include <sys/msg.h>
46 .BI "int msgctl(int " msqid ", int " cmd ", struct msqid_ds *" buf );
50 performs the control operation specified by
52 on the System\ V message queue with identifier
57 data structure is defined in \fI<sys/msg.h>\fP as follows:
62 struct ipc_perm msg_perm; /* Ownership and permissions */
63 time_t msg_stime; /* Time of last msgsnd(2) */
64 time_t msg_rtime; /* Time of last msgrcv(2) */
65 time_t msg_ctime; /* Time of last change */
66 unsigned long __msg_cbytes; /* Current number of bytes in
67 queue (nonstandard) */
68 msgqnum_t msg_qnum; /* Current number of messages
70 msglen_t msg_qbytes; /* Maximum number of bytes
72 pid_t msg_lspid; /* PID of last msgsnd(2) */
73 pid_t msg_lrpid; /* PID of last msgrcv(2) */
80 structure is defined as follows
81 (the highlighted fields are settable using
87 key_t __key; /* Key supplied to msgget(2) */
88 uid_t \fBuid\fP; /* Effective UID of owner */
89 gid_t \fBgid\fP; /* Effective GID of owner */
90 uid_t cuid; /* Effective UID of creator */
91 gid_t cgid; /* Effective GID of creator */
92 unsigned short \fBmode\fP; /* Permissions */
93 unsigned short __seq; /* Sequence number */
103 Copy information from the kernel data structure associated with
107 structure pointed to by
109 The caller must have read permission on the message queue.
112 Write the values of some members of the
114 structure pointed to by
116 to the kernel data structure associated with this message queue,
120 The following members of the structure are updated:
124 and (the least significant 9 bits of)
126 The effective UID of the calling process must match the owner
129 .RI ( msg_perm.cuid )
130 of the message queue, or the caller must be privileged.
131 Appropriate privilege (Linux: the
133 capability) is required to raise the
135 value beyond the system parameter
139 Immediately remove the message queue,
140 awakening all waiting reader and writer processes (with an error
145 The calling process must have appropriate privileges
146 or its effective user ID must be either that of the creator or owner
147 of the message queue.
148 The third argument to
150 is ignored in this case.
152 .BR IPC_INFO " (Linux-specific)"
153 Return information about system-wide message queue limits and
154 parameters in the structure pointed to by
156 This structure is of type
158 (thus, a cast is required),
163 feature test macro is defined:
168 int msgpool; /* Size in kibibytes of buffer pool
169 used to hold message data;
170 unused within kernel */
171 int msgmap; /* Maximum number of entries in message
172 map; unused within kernel */
173 int msgmax; /* Maximum number of bytes that can be
174 written in a single message */
175 int msgmnb; /* Maximum number of bytes that can be
176 written to queue; used to initialize
177 msg_qbytes during queue creation
179 int msgmni; /* Maximum number of message queues */
180 int msgssz; /* Message segment size;
181 unused within kernel */
182 int msgtql; /* Maximum number of messages on all queues
183 in system; unused within kernel */
184 unsigned short int msgseg;
185 /* Maximum number of segments;
186 unused within kernel */
196 settings can be changed via
198 files of the same name; see
202 .BR MSG_INFO " (Linux-specific)"
205 structure containing the same information as for
207 except that the following fields are returned with information
208 about system resources consumed by message queues: the
210 field returns the number of message queues that currently exist
213 field returns the total number of messages in all queues
214 on the system; and the
216 field returns the total number of bytes in all messages
217 in all queues on the system.
219 .BR MSG_STAT " (Linux-specific)"
226 argument is not a queue identifier, but instead an index into
227 the kernel's internal array that maintains information about
228 all message queues on the system.
240 operation returns the index of the highest used entry in the
241 kernel's internal array recording information about all
243 (This information can be used with repeated
245 operations to obtain information about all queues on the system.)
248 operation returns the identifier of the queue whose index was given in
251 On error, \-1 is returned with
253 indicating the error.
257 is set to one of the following:
266 but the calling process does not have read permission on the message queue
268 and does not have the
270 capability in the user namespace that governs its IPC namespace.
279 but the address pointed to by
284 The message queue was removed.
293 operation, the index value specified in
295 referred to an array slot that is currently unused.
304 but the effective user ID of the calling process is not the creator
310 of the message queue,
311 and the caller is not privileged (Linux: does not have the
320 beyond the system parameter
322 but the caller is not privileged (Linux: does not have the
326 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4.
327 .\" SVID does not document the EIDRM error condition.
333 isn't required on Linux or by any version of POSIX.
335 some old implementations required the inclusion of these header files,
336 and the SVID also documented their inclusion.
337 Applications intended to be portable to such old systems may need
338 to include these header files.
339 .\" Like Linux, the FreeBSD man pages still document
340 .\" the inclusion of these header files.
347 operations are used by the
349 program to provide information on allocated resources.
350 In the future these may modified or moved to a
352 filesystem interface.
354 Various fields in the \fIstruct msqid_ds\fP were
361 To take advantage of this,
362 a recompilation under glibc-2.1.91 or later should suffice.
363 (The kernel distinguishes old and new calls by an
371 .BR capabilities (7),