POSIX message queues brief usage

Code from
http://mij.oltrelinux.com/devel/unixprg/

// a little error in the original version, changed a little

 

More information on POSIX message queue

http://www.linuxhowtos.org/manpages/7/mq_overview.htm

 

And one problem I found is when I try to open a queue not under '/' directory, an error shows "Permision denied".

 

dropone.c

 

/*
 *  dropone.c
 *
 *  drops a message into a #defined queue, creating it if user
 *  requested. The message is associated a priority still user
 *  defined
 *
 *
 *  Created by Mij <mij@bitchx.it> on 07/08/05.
 *  Original source file available on http://mij.oltrelinux.com/devel/unixprg/
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>
/* mq_* functions */
#include <mqueue.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
/* exit() */
#include <stdlib.h>
/* getopt() */
#include <unistd.h>
/* ctime() and time() */
#include <time.h>
/* strlen() */
#include <string.h>

/* name of the POSIX object referencing the queue */
#define MSGQOBJ_NAME    "/myqueue123"
/* max length of a message (just for this process) */
#define MAX_MSG_LEN     70

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    mqd_t msgq_id;
    unsigned int msgprio = 0;
    pid_t my_pid;
    char msgcontent[MAX_MSG_LEN];
    int create_queue = 0;
    char ch;            /* for getopt() */
    time_t currtime;

    opterr = 0;
    my_pid = getpid();
    /* accepting "-q" for "create queue", requesting "-p prio" for message priority */
    while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "qp:")) != -1) {
        switch (ch) {
            case 'q':   /* create the queue */
                printf("get q option/n");
                create_queue = 1;
                break;
            case 'p':   /* specify client id */
                printf("get p option/n");
                msgprio = (unsigned int)strtol(optarg, (char **)NULL, 10);
                printf("I (%d) will use priority %d/n", my_pid, msgprio);
                break;
            default:
                printf("Usage: %s [-q] -p msg_prio, getopt/n", argv[0]);
                exit(1);
        }
    }

    /* forcing specification of "-i" argument */
    if (msgprio == 0) {
        printf("Usage: %s [-q] -p msg_prio/n", argv[0]);
        exit(1);
    /* opening the queue        --  mq_open() */
    if (create_queue) {
        /* mq_open() for creating a new queue (using default attributes) */
        msgq_id = mq_open(MSGQOBJ_NAME, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG, NULL);
    } else {
        /* mq_open() for opening an existing queue */
        msgq_id = mq_open(MSGQOBJ_NAME, O_RDWR);
    }
    if (msgq_id == (mqd_t)-1) {
        perror("In mq_open()");
        exit(1);
    }else {
        printf("msg queuse %s opened/n", MSGQOBJ_NAME);
    }

    /* producing the message */
    currtime = time(NULL);
    snprintf(msgcontent, MAX_MSG_LEN, "Hello from process %u (at %s).", my_pid, ctime(&currtime));

    /* sending the message      --  mq_send() */
    mq_send(msgq_id, msgcontent, strlen(msgcontent)+1, msgprio);

    /* closing the queue        -- mq_close() */
    mq_close(msgq_id);

    return 0;
}

 

 

takeone.c

 

/*
 *  takeone.c
 *
 *  simply request a message from a queue, and displays queue
 *  attributes.
 *
 *
 *  Created by Mij <mij@bitchx.it> on 07/08/05.
 *  Original source file available on http://mij.oltrelinux.com/devel/unixprg/
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>
/* mq_* functions */
#include <mqueue.h>
/* exit() */
#include <stdlib.h>
/* getopt() */
#include <unistd.h>
/* ctime() and time() */
#include <time.h>
/* strlen() */
#include <string.h>

/* name of the POSIX object referencing the queue */
#define MSGQOBJ_NAME    "/myqueue123"
/* max length of a message (just for this process) */
#define MAX_MSG_LEN     10000

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    mqd_t msgq_id;
    char msgcontent[MAX_MSG_LEN];
    int msgsz;
    unsigned int priority;
    struct mq_attr msgq_attr;

    /* opening the queue        --  mq_open() */
    msgq_id = mq_open(MSGQOBJ_NAME, O_RDWR);
    if (msgq_id == (mqd_t)-1) {
        perror("In mq_open()");
        exit(1);
    }

    /* getting the attributes from the queue        --  mq_getattr() */
    mq_getattr(msgq_id, &msgq_attr);
    printf("Queue /"%s/":/n/t- stores at most %ld messages/n/t- large at most %ld bytes each/n/t- currently holds %ld messages/n", MSGQOBJ_NAME, msgq_attr.mq_maxmsg, msgq_attr.mq_msgsize, msgq_attr.mq_curmsgs);

    /* getting a message */
    msgsz = mq_receive(msgq_id, msgcontent, MAX_MSG_LEN, &priority);
    if (msgsz == -1) {
        perror("In mq_receive()");
        exit(1);
    }
    printf("Received message (%d bytes) from %d: %s/n", msgsz, priority, msgcontent);

    /* closing the queue    --  mq_close() */
    mq_close(msgq_id);

    return 0;

}