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# msg_stat_queue

(PHP 4 CVS only)

msg_stat_queue -- Returns information from the message queue data structure

## Description

array msg_stat_queue ( int queue)

msg_stat_queue() returns the message queue meta data for the message queue specified by the `queue`. This is useful, for example, to determine which process sent the message that was just received.

The return value is an array whose keys and values have the following meanings:

Table 1. Array structure for msg_stat_queue

msg_perm.uid | The uid of the owner of the queue.
msg_perm.gid | The gid of the owner of the queue.
msg_perm.mode | The file access mode of the queue.
msg_stime | The time that the last message was sent to the queue.
msg_rtime | The time that the last message was received from the queue.
msg_ctime | The time that the queue was last changed.
msg_qnum | The number of messages waiting to be read from the queue.
msg_qbytes | The number of bytes of space currently available in the queue to hold sent messages until they are received.
msg_lspid | The pid of the process that sent the last message to the queue.
msg_lrpid | The pid of the process that received the last message from the queue.

See also: msg_remove_queue(), msg_receive(), msg_stat_queue() and msg_set_queue().

This function was introduced in PHP 4.3.0 (not yet released).

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