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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:27:30 +0100
From: Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl>
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To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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Subject: Re: posix message queues, was Re: 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
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bert hubert wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:06:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>  
>
>>- Added the POSIX message queue implementation.  We're still stitching
>>  together a decent description of all of this.  Reference information is at
>>	http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/
>> and
>>	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/mqueue.h.html
>>    
>>
>
>I can confirm that basic functionality is there. Both blocking and
>nonblocking operations work as advertised. Queue properly blocks when full
>or empty.
>
>mq_timedsend does not wait, it immediately returns ETIMEOUT with the queue
>is full:
>
>         struct timespec ts;
>         ts.tv_sec=1;
>    	 ts.tv_nsec=0;
>         sprintf(msgptr,"%05d %s",c,stime);
>	 
>         if ( mq_timedsend(mqd,msgptr,msglen,msg_prio, &ts) )
>	 {
>	    perror("mq_send()");
>	      break;
>	 }
>
>results in:
>
>$ ./mqreceive /Q32x128
>1: priority 0  len 64 text 00001 Mon Mar  1 12:20:11 2004  
>$ ./mqreceive /Q32x128
>1: priority 0  len 64 text 00001 Mon Mar  1 12:20:11 2004  
>$ ./mqsend  /Q32x128
>$ ./mqsend  /Q32x128
>$ ./mqsend  /Q32x128
>mq_send(): Connection timed out  <- immediately
>  
>
It _should_ return immediately. mq_timedsend timeout must be given as 
absolute value, so if you want to have one second timeout from now,
you must do:

	ts.tv_sec = time(NULL) + 1;
    	ts.tv_nsec = 0;

And I don't have idea why POSIX defines timeout as absolute not relative 
;-).

>I would very much advise Michal and Krzysztof to add some basic examples to
>their page. I had to scour the internet to find some working code.
>  
>
Thats right. The above problem also shows that such examples can be 
usefull. We are just now updating man pages for the library (there are 
some obsolete informations) and I will prepare some well commented programs.

>Mounting the queuefs works but the fs, confusingly, is called mqueue and not
>mqueuefs.
>  
>
As proc or msdos. Of course it can be changed if more people will want 
'fs' suffix. Menuconfig help gives proper name.

Regards,
Krzysiek

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