'\" t .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Kerrisk .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one. .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" .TH MQ_RECEIVE 3 2016-12-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME mq_receive, mq_timedreceive \- receive a message from a message queue .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .sp .BI "ssize_t mq_receive(mqd_t " mqdes ", char *" msg_ptr , .BI " size_t " msg_len ", unsigned int *" msg_prio ); .sp .B #include .B #include .sp .BI "ssize_t mq_timedreceive(mqd_t " mqdes ", char *" msg_ptr , .BI " size_t " msg_len ", unsigned int *" msg_prio , .BI " const struct timespec *" abs_timeout ); .fi .sp Link with \fI\-lrt\fP. .sp .ad l .in -4n Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .in .sp .BR mq_timedreceive (): .RS 4 _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L .RE .ad .SH DESCRIPTION .BR mq_receive () removes the oldest message with the highest priority from the message queue referred to by the message queue descriptor .IR mqdes , and places it in the buffer pointed to by .IR msg_ptr . The .I msg_len argument specifies the size of the buffer pointed to by .IR msg_ptr ; this must be greater than or equal to the .I mq_msgsize attribute of the queue (see .BR mq_getattr (3)). If .I msg_prio is not NULL, then the buffer to which it points is used to return the priority associated with the received message. If the queue is empty, then, by default, .BR mq_receive () blocks until a message becomes available, or the call is interrupted by a signal handler. If the .B O_NONBLOCK flag is enabled for the message queue description, then the call instead fails immediately with the error .BR EAGAIN . .BR mq_timedreceive () behaves just like .BR mq_receive (), except that if the queue is empty and the .B O_NONBLOCK flag is not enabled for the message queue description, then .I abs_timeout points to a structure which specifies how long the call will block. This value is an absolute timeout in seconds and nanoseconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC), specified in the following structure: .sp .in +4n .nf struct timespec { time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */ }; .fi .in If no message is available, and the timeout has already expired by the time of the call, .BR mq_timedreceive () returns immediately. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR mq_receive () and .BR mq_timedreceive () return the number of bytes in the received message; on error, \-1 is returned, with .I errno set to indicate the error. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EAGAIN The queue was empty, and the .B O_NONBLOCK flag was set for the message queue description referred to by .IR mqdes . .TP .B EBADF The descriptor specified in .I mqdes was invalid or not opened for reading. .TP .B EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal handler; see .BR signal (7). .TP .B EINVAL The call would have blocked, and .I abs_timeout was invalid, either because .I tv_sec was less than zero, or because .I tv_nsec was less than zero or greater than 1000 million. .TP .B EMSGSIZE .I msg_len was less than the .I mq_msgsize attribute of the message queue. .TP .B ETIMEDOUT The call timed out before a message could be transferred. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). .TS allbox; lbw31 lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .BR mq_receive (), .BR mq_timedreceive () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .SH CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. .SH NOTES On Linux, .BR mq_timedreceive () is a system call, and .BR mq_receive () is a library function layered on top of that system call. .SH SEE ALSO .BR mq_close (3), .BR mq_getattr (3), .BR mq_notify (3), .BR mq_open (3), .BR mq_send (3), .BR mq_unlink (3), .BR mq_overview (7), .BR time (7) .SH COLOPHON This page is part of release 4.10 of the Linux .I man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at \%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.