msgrcv function

Declaration

function msgrcv(msqid: cint; msgp: PMSGbuf; msgsz: size_t; 
 msgtyp: clong; msgflg: cint): cint

Description

msgrcv retrieves a message of type msgtyp from the message queue with ID msqid. msgtyp corresponds to the mtype field of the TMSGbuf record. The message is stored in the MSGbuf structure pointed to by msgp.

The msgflg parameter can be used to control the behaviour of the msgrcv call. It consists of an ORed combination of the following flags:

0

No special meaning.

IPC_NOWAIT

if no messages are available, then the call returns immediately, with the ENOMSG error.

MSG_NOERROR

If the message size is wrong (too large), no error is generated, instead the message is truncated. Normally, in such cases, the call returns an error (E2BIG)

The function returns True if the message was received correctly, False otherwise.

For an example, see msgctl.

Errors

In case of error, False is returned, and IPCerror is set.

See also

• msgget
• msgsnd
• msgctl