<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- $Revision$ -->
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.msg-stat-queue">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>msg_stat_queue</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns information from the message queue data structure</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>array</type><methodname>msg_stat_queue</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>queue</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   <function>msg_stat_queue</function> returns the message queue meta data
   for the message queue specified by the <parameter>queue</parameter>.
   This is useful, for example, to determine which process sent the message
   that was just received.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>queue</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Message queue resource handle
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   The return value is an array whose keys and values have the following
   meanings:
   <table>
    <title>Array structure for msg_stat_queue</title>
    <tgroup cols="2">
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_perm.uid</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The uid of the owner of the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_perm.gid</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The gid of the owner of the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_perm.mode</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The file access mode of the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_stime</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The time that the last message was sent to the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_rtime</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The time that the last message was received from the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_ctime</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The time that the queue was last changed.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_qnum</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The number of messages waiting to be read from the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_qbytes</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The maximum number of bytes allowed in one message queue. On
        Linux, this value may be read and modified via
        <filename>/proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb</filename>.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_lspid</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The pid of the process that sent the last message to the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>msg_lrpid</literal></entry>
       <entry>
        The pid of the process that received the last message from the queue.
       </entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </table>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>msg_remove_queue</function></member>
    <member><function>msg_receive</function></member>
    <member><function>msg_get_queue</function></member>
    <member><function>msg_set_queue</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>  

</refentry>

<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
Local variables:
mode: sgml
sgml-omittag:t
sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
sgml-indent-step:1
sgml-indent-data:t
indent-tabs-mode:nil
sgml-parent-document:nil
sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
sgml-exposed-tags:nil
sgml-local-catalogs:nil
sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
End:
vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
vi: ts=1 sw=1
-->