mq_unlink — remove a message queue (REALTIME)
The mq_unlink() function shall remove the message queue named by the string name. If one or more processes have the message queue open when mq_unlink() is called, destruction of the message queue shall be postponed until all references to the message queue have been closed. However, the mq_unlink() call need not block until all references have been closed; it may return immediately.
After a successful call to mq_unlink(), reuse of the name shall subsequently cause mq_open() to behave as if no message queue of this name exists (that is, mq_open() shall fail if O_CREAT is not set, or shall create a new message queue if O_CREAT is set).
Upon successful completion, the function shall return a value of zero. Otherwise, the named message queue shall be unchanged by this function call, and the function shall return a value of -1 and set errno to indicate the error.
The mq_unlink() function shall fail if:
- [EACCES]
- Permission is denied to unlink the named message queue.
- [EINTR]
- The call to mq_unlink() blocked waiting for all references to the named message queue to be closed and a signal interrupted the call.
- [ENOENT]
- The named message queue does not exist.
The mq_unlink() function may fail if:
- [ENAMETOOLONG]
- The length of the name argument exceeds {_POSIX_PATH_MAX} on systems that do not support the XSI option [XSI] or exceeds {_XOPEN_PATH_MAX} on XSI systems, or has a pathname component that is longer than {_POSIX_NAME_MAX} on systems that do not support the XSI option [XSI] or longer than {_XOPEN_NAME_MAX} on XSI systems. A call to mq_unlink() with a name argument that contains the same message queue name as was previously used in a successful mq_open() call shall not give an [ENAMETOOLONG] error.
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A future version might require the mq_open() and mq_unlink() functions to have semantics similar to normal file system operations.
mq_close , mq_open , msgctl , msgget , msgrcv , msgsnd
XBD <mqueue.h>
First released in Issue 5. Included for alignment with the POSIX Realtime Extension.
The mq_unlink() function is marked as part of the Message Passing option.
The Open Group Corrigendum U021/5 is applied, clarifying that upon unsuccessful completion, the named message queue is unchanged by this function.
The [ENOSYS] error condition has been removed as stubs need not be provided if an implementation does not support the Message Passing option.
Austin Group Interpretation 1003.1-2001 #077 is applied, changing [ENAMETOOLONG] from a "shall fail" to a "may fail" error .
Austin Group Interpretation 1003.1-2001 #141 is applied.
POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 2, XSH/TC2-2008/0230 [504] is applied.
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