Message queues. Possibly dumb mistake.

[Alex Laney]

In article <1989Dec7.150205.12104 at antel.uucp> geoff at antel.uucp (Geoff Vona) writes:
>
>I'm trying to use messages and queues under 386/ix 2.0.2 and I'm having
>problems.  In msgsnd and msgrcv, messages are passed using a structure
>called msgbuf that looks like this:
>
>struct msgbuf {
>long mtype;
>char mtext[1];
>};
>
>(from /usr/include/sys/msg.h)
You can use these one-byte messages if you want ...

but I define a struct like this ...

struct {
long mtype;
char buf[2000];
}

and it works. You must have a buffer large enough on both ends for
your messages...



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