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Technical Reference: Communications, Volume 2

OTHERQ Utility

Purpose

Returns the pointer to the mate queue.

Syntax


#define OTHERQ( q) ((q)->flag&QREADER? (q)+1: (q)-1)

Description

The OTHERQ utility returns a pointer to the mate queue of the q parameter.

This utility is part of STREAMS Kernel Extensions.

Parameters

q Specifies that queue whose mate is to be returned.

Return Values

If the q parameter specifies the read queue for the module, the OTHERQ utility returns a pointer to the module's write queue. If the q parameter specifies the write queue for the module, this utility returns a pointer to the read queue.

Related Information

The RD utility, WR utility.

List of Streams Programming References and Understanding STREAMS Messages in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Communications Programming Concepts.

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