POSIX Messages
The POSIX message queue interfaces are listed in the following table.
Table 6-2 POSIX Message Queue Interfaces
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mq_open
| Connects to, and optionally creates, a named message queue
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mq_close
| Ends the connection to an open message queue
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mq_unlink
| Ends the connection to an open message queue and causes the queue to
be removed when the last process closes it
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mq_send
| Places a message in the queue
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mq_receive
| Receives (removes) the oldest, highest priority message from the queue
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mq_notify
| Notifies a process or thread that a message is available in the queue
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mq_setattr
| Set or get message queue attributes
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