Queued Messages
A put procedure processes single messages immediately and can pass the message to the next module's put procedure using put or putnext. Alternatively, the message is linked on the message queue for later processing, to be processed by a module's service procedure (putq(9F)). Note that only the first module of a set of linked modules is linked to the next message in the queue.
Think of linked message blocks as a concatenation of messages. Queued messages are a linked list of individual messages that can also be linked message blocks.
Figure 7-3 Queued Messages
In Figure 7–3 messages are queued: Message 1 being the first message on the queue, followed by Message 2 and Message 3. Notice that Message 1 is a linked message consisting of more than one mblk.
