Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

No message of desired type

Cause

An attempt was made to receive a message of a type that does not exist on the specified message queue. See the msgsnd(2) and msgrcv(2) man pages for details.

Action

This message indicates an error in the System V IPC message facility. Generally the message queue is empty or devoid of the desired message type while IPC_NOWAIT is set.

Technical Notes

The symbolic name for this error is ENOMSG, errno=35.