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26 .TH MQ_UNLINK 3 2014-06-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
28 mq_unlink \- remove a message queue
31 .B #include <mqueue.h>
33 .BI "int mq_unlink(const char *" name );
36 Link with \fI\-lrt\fP.
39 removes the specified message queue
41 The message queue name is removed immediately.
42 The queue itself is destroyed once any other processes that have
43 the queue open close their descriptors referring to the queue.
47 returns 0; on error, \-1 is returned, with
49 set to indicate the error.
53 The caller does not have permission to unlink this message queue.
60 There is no message queue with the given
63 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
66 function is thread-safe.