GETPMSG(3P)

🦋 GETPMSG(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 🦋

okay bestie, so this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and before we even get into it there's a lil heads-up you need.

⚠️ PROLOG (read this first, fr)

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the tea on Linux behavior — or honestly, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀

✨ NAME ✨

getpmsg — receive next message from a STREAMS file

it's giving "grab the next message off the queue" energy, and we love that for it. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stropts.h>

int getpmsg(int fildes, struct strbuf *restrict ctlptr,
    struct strbuf *restrict dataptr, int *restrict bandp,
    int *restrict flagsp);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so, plot twist: there's no description here. literally the whole description is

Refer to getmsg().

that's it. that's the vibe. the actual lore lives in getmsg() so go read that one, iykyk. 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Real talk, some of this text is reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. 💖

And if this version ever beefs with the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard? The original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document, periodt. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format — not me, not you, just the conversion process being messy 🙈. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

mwah 💋 that's the whole page, and yes it was short — this one's a whole page of "go ask getmsg()", no cap. it came from IEEE / The Open Group in 2017, and honestly? iconic of them. stay safe out there and don't forget to check whether your system even has STREAMS bestie 😭💜