#include <mqueue.h>
int mq_send(mqd_t mqdes, const char *msg_ptr,
size_t msg_len, unsigned int msg_prio);
#include <time.h>
#include <mqueue.h>
int mq_timedsend(mqd_t mqdes, const char *msg_ptr,
size_t msg_len, unsigned int msg_prio,
const struct timespec *abs_timeout);
Link with -lrt.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
mq_timedsend():
The msg_prio argument is a nonnegative integer that specifies the priority of this message. Messages are placed on the queue in decreasing order of priority, with newer messages of the same priority being placed after older messages with the same priority.
If the message queue is already full (i.e., the number of messages on the queue equals the queue's mq_maxmsg attribute), then, by default, mq_send() blocks until sufficient space becomes available to allow the message to be queued, or until the call is interrupted by a signal handler. If the O_NONBLOCK flag is enabled for the message queue description, then the call instead fails immediately with the error EAGAIN.
mq_timedsend() behaves just like mq_send(), except that if the queue is full and the O_NONBLOCK flag is not enabled for the message queue description, then abs_timeout points to a structure which specifies a ceiling on the time for which the call will block. This ceiling is an absolute timeout in seconds and nanoseconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC), and it is specified in the following structure:
struct timespec {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
};
If the message queue is full,
and the timeout has already expired by the time of the call,
mq_timedsend()
returns immediately.