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📛 NAME

IPC::Msg — SysV Msg IPC object class

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🆕 Create message queue	IPC::Msg->new(KEY, FLAGS)	Creates or opens a SysV message queue
📨 Send message	$msg->snd(TYPE, MSG [, FLAGS])	Places a message on the queue
📥 Receive message	$msg->rcv(BUF, LEN [, TYPE, FLAGS])	Reads a message from the queue
📊 Get queue status	$msg->stat	Returns an IPC::Msg::stat object with queue metadata
⚙️ Set queue attributes	$msg->set(NAME => VALUE, ...)	Modifies uid, gid, mode, or qbytes
🗑️ Remove queue	$msg->remove	Destroys the message queue

📖 SYNOPSIS

use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_PRIVATE S_IRUSR S_IWUSR);
use IPC::Msg;

$msg = IPC::Msg->new(IPC_PRIVATE, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);

$msg->snd($msgtype, $msgdata);

$msg->rcv($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 permissions. Be careful not to set any flags that the Sys V IPC implementation does not allow: in some systems setting execute bits makes the operations fail.

🆔 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(2). 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 associated with the message queue.

• uid
• gid
• mode (only 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(2).

📊 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 your system documentation.

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

🔗 SEE ALSO

IPC::SysV, Class::Struct

👤 AUTHORS

Graham Barr <gbarr AT pobox.com>, Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx AT cpan.org>

©️ COPYRIGHT

Version 2.x, Copyright (C) 2007-2013, Marcus Holland-Moritz.

Version 1.x, Copyright (c) 1997, Graham Barr.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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