books/apitue/sample-code/08/msgsend.c

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/* This file is part of the sample code and exercises
* used by the class "Advanced Programming in the UNIX
* Environment" taught by Jan Schaumann
* <jschauma@netmeister.org> at Stevens Institute of
* Technology.
*
* This file is in the public domain.
*
* You don't have to, but if you feel like
* acknowledging where you got this code, you may
* reference me by name, email address, or point
* people to the course website:
* https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/
*/
/* A simple program to illustrate the use of Message
* Queues.
*
* Note that message queues continue to exist after
* all processes have terminated; messages continue to
* remain in the queues as well. This is desired, but
* requires that processes clean up after themselves
* when they are done using the queues.
*
* Note that in this example we manually specify the
* key instead of using ftok(2).
*
* Use this tool to create/send messages, then run
* msgrecv to retrieve them (in order). Note that
* msgrecv will block if no messages are in the queue.
*
* Use ipcs(1) to inspect the usage.
*
* Derived from:
* https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/C/node25.html
*/
#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/msg.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define MSGSZ 128
typedef struct msgbuf {
long mtype;
char mtext[MSGSZ];
} message_buf;
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int msqid;
key_t key;
message_buf sbuf;
size_t len;
if (argc != 3) {
(void)fprintf(stderr, "Usage: msgsend key message\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if ((key = atoi(argv[1])) < 1) {
(void)fprintf(stderr, "Invalid key: %s\n", argv[1]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if ((msqid = msgget(key, IPC_CREAT | 0644)) < 0) {
perror("msgget");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
sbuf.mtype = 1;
(void)strncpy(sbuf.mtext, argv[2], MSGSZ);
len = strlen(sbuf.mtext) + 1;
if (msgsnd(msqid, &sbuf, len, IPC_NOWAIT) < 0) {
(void)fprintf (stderr, "%d, %ld, %s, %d\n",
msqid, sbuf.mtype, sbuf.mtext, (int)len);
perror("msgsnd");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}