MQ_OPEN(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		    MQ_OPEN(3)



NAME
       mq_open - open a message queue

SYNOPSIS
       #include <fcntl.h>	    /* For O_* constants */
       #include <sys/stat.h>	    /* For mode constants */
       #include <mqueue.h>

       mqd_t mq_open(const char *name, int oflag);
       mqd_t mq_open(const char *name, int oflag, mode_t mode,
		     struct mq_attr *attr);

       Link with -lrt.

DESCRIPTION
       mq_open() creates a new POSIX message queue or opens an existing queue.
       The queue is identified by name.	 For details of	 the  construction  of
       name, see mq_overview(7).

       The  oflag  argument  specifies flags that control the operation of the
       call.  (Definitions of the flags values can be  obtained	 by  including
       <fcntl.h>.)  Exactly one of the following must be specified in oflag:

       O_RDONLY
	      Open the queue to receive messages only.

       O_WRONLY
	      Open the queue to send messages only.

       O_RDWR Open the queue to both send and receive messages.

       Zero or more of the following flags can additionally be ORed in oflag:

       O_CLOEXEC (since Linux 2.6.26)
	      Set  the	close-on-exec  flag  for the message queue descriptor.
	      See open(2) for a discussion of why this flag is useful.

       O_CREAT
	      Create the message queue if it does not exist.  The owner	 (user
	      ID)  of the message queue is set to the effective user ID of the
	      calling process.	The group ownership (group ID) is set  to  the
	      effective group ID of the calling process.

       O_EXCL If  O_CREAT  was	specified in oflag, and a queue with the given
	      name already exists, then fail with the error EEXIST.

       O_NONBLOCK
	      Open the queue in	 nonblocking  mode.   In  circumstances	 where
	      mq_receive(3)  and  mq_send(3) would normally block, these func-
	      tions instead fail with the error EAGAIN.

       If O_CREAT is specified in oflag, then two additional arguments must be
       supplied.   The mode argument specifies the permissions to be placed on
       the new queue, as for open(2).  (Symbolic definitions for  the  permis-
       sions bits can be obtained by including <sys/stat.h>.)  The permissions
       settings are masked against the process umask.

       The fields of the struct mq_attr pointed to attr	 specify  the  maximum
       number of messages and the maximum size of messages that the queue will
       allow.  This structure is defined as follows:


	   struct mq_attr {
	       long mq_flags;	    /* Flags (ignored for mq_open()) */
	       long mq_maxmsg;	    /* Max. # of messages on queue */
	       long mq_msgsize;	    /* Max. message size (bytes) */
	       long mq_curmsgs;	    /* # of messages currently in queue
				       (ignored for mq_open()) */
	   };

       Only the mq_maxmsg and mq_msgsize  fields  are  employed	 when  calling
       mq_open(); the values in the remaining fields are ignored.

       If  attr is NULL, then the queue is created with implementation-defined
       default attributes.  Since Linux 3.5, two /proc files can  be  used  to
       control these defaults; see mq_overview(7) for details.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  mq_open()	returns	 a message queue descriptor for use by
       other message queue functions.  On error, mq_open() returns (mqd_t) -1,
       with errno set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       EACCES The  queue  exists,  but	the caller does not have permission to
	      open it in the specified mode.

       EACCES name contained more than one slash.

       EEXIST Both O_CREAT and O_EXCL were specified in	 oflag,	 but  a	 queue
	      with this name already exists.

       EINVAL name doesn't follow the format in mq_overview(7).

       EINVAL O_CREAT  was  specified  in  oflag,  and	attr was not NULL, but
	      attr->mq_maxmsg or attr->mq_msqsize was invalid.	Both of	 these
	      fields must be greater than zero.	 In a process that is unprivi-
	      leged  (does  not	  have	 the   CAP_SYS_RESOURCE	  capability),
	      attr->mq_maxmsg must be less than or equal to the msg_max limit,
	      and attr->mq_msgsize must be less than  or  equal	 to  the  msg-
	      size_max	limit.	 In  addition,	even  in a privileged process,
	      attr->mq_maxmsg cannot exceed the HARD_MAX limit.	 (See mq_over-
	      view(7) for details of these limits.)

       EMFILE The  per-process	limit  on  the number of open file and message
	      queue descriptors has  been  reached  (see  the  description  of
	      RLIMIT_NOFILE in getrlimit(2)).

       ENAMETOOLONG
	      name was too long.

       ENFILE The system-wide limit on the total number of open files and mes-
	      sage queues has been reached.

       ENOENT The O_CREAT flag was not specified in oflag, and no  queue  with
	      this name exists.

       ENOENT name was just "/" followed by no other characters.

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory.

       ENOSPC Insufficient  space  for	the  creation  of a new message queue.
	      This probably occurred because the queues_max limit was  encoun-
	      tered; see mq_overview(7).

ATTRIBUTES
       For   an	  explanation	of   the  terms	 used  in  this	 section,  see
       attributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface | Attribute	  | Value   |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |mq_open() | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES
   C library/kernel differences
       The mq_open() library function is implemented on top of a  system  call
       of  the	same  name.   The library function performs the check that the
       name starts with a slash (/), giving the EINVAL error if it  does  not.
       The  kernel  system call expects name to contain no preceding slash, so
       the C library function passes name without the preceding	 slash	(i.e.,
       name+1) to the system call.

BUGS
       In kernels before 2.6.14, the process umask was not applied to the per-
       missions specified in mode.

SEE ALSO
       mq_close(3), mq_getattr(3),  mq_notify(3),  mq_receive(3),  mq_send(3),
       mq_unlink(3), mq_overview(7)

COLOPHON
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