Sys V IPC

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <900002 at coma.UUCP> andy at coma.UUCP writes:
>I few days ago I made my first experiences with message queues
>and I had some difficulties with long messages (loss of data).
>Perhaps that was my mistake, messages that contain just a single
>character arrive correctly.

Be warned that someone discovered a horrible bug,
such that messages were stacked (LIFO) rather than
queued (FIFO).  I don't know what releases have
this problem, but watch out.