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+.\" $NetBSD: msgrcv.2,v 1.23 2026/01/02 22:22:22 nia Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
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+.Dd July 24, 2013
+.Dt MSGRCV 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm msgrcv
+.Nd receive a message from a message queue
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/msg.h
+.Ft ssize_t
+.Fn msgrcv "int msqid" "void *msgp" "size_t msgsz" "long msgtyp" "int msgflg"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn msgrcv
+function receives a message from the message queue specified in
+.Fa msqid ,
+and places it into the user-defined structure pointed to by
+.Fa msgp .
+This structure must contain a first field of type
+.Sy long
+that will indicate the user-defined type of the message.
+The remaining fields will contain the contents of the message.
+The following is an example of what this user-defined structure might
+look like:
+.Bd -literal
+struct mymsg {
+ long mtype; /* message type */
+ char mtext[1]; /* body of message */
+};
+.Ed
+.Pp
+.Va mtype
+is an integer greater than 0 that can be used to select messages.
+.Va mtext
+is an array of bytes, with size up to the system limit
+.Dv MSGMAX .
+.Pp
+The value of
+.Fa msgtyp
+has one of the following meanings:
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+.Fa msgtyp
+is greater than 0.
+The first message of type
+.Fa msgtyp
+will be received.
+.It
+.Fa msgtyp
+is equal to 0.
+The first message on the queue will be received.
+.It
+.Fa msgtyp
+is less than 0.
+The first message of the lowest message type that is
+less than or equal to the absolute value of
+.Fa msgtyp
+will be received.
+.El
+.Pp
+The argument
+.Fa msgsz
+specifies the size in bytes of
+.Va mtext .
+If the received message has a length greater than
+.Fa msgsz
+it will be silently truncated if the
+.Dv MSG_NOERROR
+flag is set in
+.Fa msgflg ,
+otherwise an error will be returned.
+.Pp
+If no matching message is present on the message queue specified by
+.Fa msqid ,
+the behaviour of
+.Fn msgrcv
+depends on whether the
+.Dv IPC_NOWAIT
+flag is set in
+.Fa msgflg
+or not.
+If
+.Dv IPC_NOWAIT
+is set, then
+.Fn msgrcv
+will immediately return a value of \-1 and set
+.Va errno
+to
+.Er EAGAIN .
+If
+.Dv IPC_NOWAIT
+is not set, the calling process will block until:
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+A message of the requested type becomes available on the message queue.
+.It
+The message queue is removed, in which case \-1 will be returned and
+.Va errno
+set to
+.Er EIDRM .
+.It
+A signal is received and caught.
+\-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to
+.Er EINTR .
+.El
+.Pp
+If a message is successfully received, the data structure associated with
+.Fa msqid
+is updated as follows:
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+.Va msg_lrpid
+is set to the pid of the caller.
+.It
+.Va msg_lrtime
+is set to the current time.
+.It
+.Va msg_qnum
+is decremented by 1.
+.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion,
+.Fn msgrcv
+returns the number of bytes received and placed into the
+.Va mtext
+field of the structure pointed to by
+.Fa msgp .
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned, and
+.Va errno
+set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn msgrcv
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er E2BIG
+A matching message was received, but its size was greater than
+.Fa msgsz
+and the
+.Dv MSG_NOERROR
+flag was not set in
+.Fa msgflg .
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+The calling process does not have read access to the message queue.
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+There is no message of the requested type available on the message queue,
+and
+.Dv IPC_NOWAIT
+is set in
+.Fa msgflg .
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.Fa msgp
+points to an invalid address.
+.It Bq Er EIDRM
+The message queue identifier
+.Fa msqid
+is removed from the system.
+.It Bq Er EINTR
+The system call was interrupted by the delivery of a signal.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa msqid
+is not a valid message queue identifier
+.Pp
+The message queue was removed while
+.Fn msgrcv
+was waiting for a message of the requested type to become available in it.
+.Pp
+.Fa msgsz
+is greater than
+.Dv SSIZE_MAX .
+.It Bq Er ENOMSG
+The queue does not contain a message of the desired type and
+.Dv IPC_NOWAIT
+is set.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr msgctl 2 ,
+.Xr msgget 2 ,
+.Xr msgsnd 2
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm
+system call conforms to
+.St -xsh5 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+Message queues appeared in the first release of
+.At V .