Message Queues

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:56:12PM -0700, Steve Jardine took 44 lines to write:
> SysV..
> 
>    On another note, when I am writing to a queue, another process sometimes reads
> it (msgget) before I have completed my write to the queue. As a result, the
> process reading the entry gets an incomplete entry. I know there must be a flag I
> am not setting correctly. 

The typical procedure is to set a semaphore to guard access, although
it does seem perverse to use a mutex to control access to a message
queue.

Kurt
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