#NAME

IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class

#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 (oly 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 you system documentation.

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

#SEE ALSO

IPC::SysV, Class::Struct

#AUTHORS

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

#COPYRIGHT

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