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Technical Reference: Communications, Volume 2


freemsg Utility

Purpose

Frees all message blocks in a message.

Syntax


void freemsg(bp)
register mblk_t * bp;

Description

The freemsg utility uses the freeb utility to free all message blocks and their corresponding data blocks for the message pointed to by the bp parameter.

Parameters


bp Contains a pointer to the message that is to be freed.

Implementation Specifics

This utility is part of STREAMS Kernel Extensions.

Related Information

The freeb utility.

List of Streams Programming References and Understanding STREAMS Messages in AIX 5L Version 5.1 Communications Programming Concepts.


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