Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:59:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SysV IPC related question Message-ID: <3D599D77.C1657E75@mindspring.com> References: <20020813233459.25838.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hiten Pandya wrote:
> OK. One more question; so, is there any particular reason why our cousin
> NetBSD doesnt use this "overlay" structure? Also, the NetBSD SysV Msg
> regression tool defines its own struct mymsg; and doesnt have one standard
> in the <sys/msg.h> header file.
I don't know why NetBSD doesn't have this. Perhaps they are
unconcerned with the portability of code using SYSV message
queues, when it comes to internal structure packing.
I would think directly casting it to a long in the kernel would
be a bad thing on Alpha, with certain source code in user space.
I expect that they define it for the regression test so that
they can actually do regression on these cases.
> Also, if possible, could you outline some situations where this would be
> used? Help will be very appreicated.
It's because if you don't ask for a specific meswsage type (e.g.
it is important for you to get messages in the order they were
sent), then you can't control which message will be returned in
your message buffer passed to msgrcv(2).
Example:
----------
struct mymsg {
long mtype;
char mtest[1];
};
#define MTYPE_A 75
struct msg_a {
long mtype;
int id;
char name[ 8];
};
#define MTYPE_B 76
struct msg_b {
long mtype;
char msg[ 16];
struct stat data;
};
typedef union {
struct mymsg mymsg;
struct msg_a a;
struct mdg_b b;
} msg_t;
msg_t msg;
/* p3 = 0 :== receive any message */
if ( msgrcv(msqid, &msg, sizeof(msg), 0, 0) == -1) {
perror("msgsnd");
exit( 3);
}
switch( msg.mymsg.mtype) {
case MTYPE_A:
printf( "name=%s, id = %d\n",
msg.a.name,
msg.a.id);
break;
case MTYPE_B:
printf( "Result '%s', size= %d\n",
msg.b.msg,
msg.b.data.st_size);
break;
default:
printf "Unrecognized message type: %d\n",
msg.mymsg.mtype);
break;
}
----------
-- Terry
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