IPC::Msg

IPC::Msg(3)            Perl Programmers Reference Guide            IPC::Msg(3)



NAME
       IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class

SYNOPSIS
           use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_PRIVATE S_IRWXU);
           use IPC::Msg;

           $msg = new IPC::Msg(IPC_PRIVATE, S_IRWXU);

           $msg->snd(pack("l! a*",$msgtype,$msg));

           $msg->rcv($buf,256);

           $ds = $msg->stat;

           $msg->remove;

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

METHODS
       new ( KEY , FLAGS )
           Creates a new message queue associated with "KEY". A new queue is
           created if

           *   "KEY" is equal to "IPC_PRIVATE"

           *   "KEY" does not already  have  a  message queue associated with
               it, and "FLAGS & IPC_CREAT" is true.

           On creation of a new message queue "FLAGS" is used to set the per-
           missions.

       id  Returns the system message queue identifier.

       rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] )
           Read a message from the queue. Returns the type of the message
           read.  See msgrcv.  The  BUF becomes tainted.

       remove
           Remove and destroy the message queue from the system.

       set ( STAT )
       set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] )
           "set" will set the following values of the "stat" structure associ-
           ated with the message queue.

               uid
               gid
               mode (oly the permission bits)
               qbytes

           "set" accepts either a stat object, as returned by the "stat"
           method, or a list of name-value pairs.

       snd ( TYPE, MSG [, FLAGS ] )
           Place a message on the queue with the data from "MSG" and with type
           "TYPE".  See msgsnd.

       stat
           Returns an object of type "IPC::Msg::stat" which is a sub-class of
           "Class::Struct". It provides the following fields. For a
           description of these fields see you system documentation.

               uid
               gid
               cuid
               cgid
               mode
               qnum
               qbytes
               lspid
               lrpid
               stime
               rtime
               ctime

SEE ALSO
       IPC::SysV Class::Struct

AUTHOR
       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1997 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.  This program is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.8.6                       2001-09-21                       IPC::Msg(3)