1IPC::Msg(3pm)          Perl Programmers Reference Guide          IPC::Msg(3pm)
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NAME

6       IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
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SYNOPSIS

9           use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_PRIVATE S_IRUSR S_IWUSR);
10           use IPC::Msg;
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12           $msg = IPC::Msg->new(IPC_PRIVATE, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
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14           $msg->snd(pack("l! a*",$msgtype,$msg));
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16           $msg->rcv($buf,256);
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18           $ds = $msg->stat;
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20           $msg->remove;
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DESCRIPTION

23       A class providing an object based interface to SysV IPC message queues.
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METHODS

26       new ( KEY , FLAGS )
27           Creates a new message queue associated with "KEY". A new queue is
28           created if
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30           ·   "KEY" is equal to "IPC_PRIVATE"
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32           ·   "KEY" does not already have a message queue associated with it,
33               and "FLAGS & IPC_CREAT" is true.
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35           On creation of a new message queue "FLAGS" is used to set the
36           permissions.  Be careful not to set any flags that the Sys V IPC
37           implementation does not allow: in some systems setting execute bits
38           makes the operations fail.
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40       id  Returns the system message queue identifier.
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42       rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] )
43           Read a message from the queue. Returns the type of the message
44           read.  See msgrcv.  The  BUF becomes tainted.
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46       remove
47           Remove and destroy the message queue from the system.
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49       set ( STAT )
50       set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] )
51           "set" will set the following values of the "stat" structure
52           associated with the message queue.
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54               uid
55               gid
56               mode (oly the permission bits)
57               qbytes
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59           "set" accepts either a stat object, as returned by the "stat"
60           method, or a list of name-value pairs.
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62       snd ( TYPE, MSG [, FLAGS ] )
63           Place a message on the queue with the data from "MSG" and with type
64           "TYPE".  See msgsnd.
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66       stat
67           Returns an object of type "IPC::Msg::stat" which is a sub-class of
68           "Class::Struct". It provides the following fields. For a
69           description of these fields see you system documentation.
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71               uid
72               gid
73               cuid
74               cgid
75               mode
76               qnum
77               qbytes
78               lspid
79               lrpid
80               stime
81               rtime
82               ctime
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SEE ALSO

85       IPC::SysV, Class::Struct
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AUTHORS

88       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx@cpan.org>
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91       Version 2.x, Copyright (C) 2007, Marcus Holland-Moritz.
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93       Version 1.x, Copyright (c) 1997, Graham Barr.
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95       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
96       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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100perl v5.10.1                      2009-04-18                     IPC::Msg(3pm)
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