wait on ipc message

[Michael Rawdon]

In <1990Dec9.091203.4188 at bbt.se> pgd at bbt.se writes:
>I want to stall a process, to wake up on a message received
>through a SYSV ipc message, or data available on any file.
>That is, i want a select/poll to also include messages received
>through an ipc channel.

If I understand what you're asking correctly, I believe if you have the
following command format for receiving a message:

msgrcv (msqid, msgp, msgsz, msgtyp, msgflg)

then if you simply do *not* set IPC_NOWAIT in msgflg, the process will
block until a message of type 'msgtyp' appears on the message queue with
id 'msqid'.  'msqid' is an int and 'msgtyp' is a long.  'msgflg' is an int
also, actually, but INC_NOWAIT is predefined in one of the relevant header
files.

I got this info from IBM's AIX manuals, but the functionality was identical
(or nearly so, enough so that I don't recall having any problems with it)
on our Pyramid 9815 running System V.

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