POSIX Message Queues

[Shay, Daniel]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:53 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> We have been running a FC4/PPC64 machine where we have run into the
>> following issues with POSIX message queues.
>> 
>>  -An application fails to close/unlink queues, allowing the machine
the
>> reach the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max limit. I don't know how to
>> cleanup message queues let open after process dies.  Note: ipcs
doesn't
>> seem to work with POSIX message queues.
>
>It should.  "ipcrm -Q" or "ipcrm -q" should do it.

When I run a simple test program where a posix queue is opened while I
issue the command 'ipcs' I do not see any message queues listed.  It is
my understanding from the man pages this utility along with the ipc*
commands, was written for SysV constructs. I cannot find the posix
equivalent.  

Daniel