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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Sys V IPC
Message-ID: <1158@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 06:54:47 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1158
Posted: Thu Feb 20 06:54:47 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 07:35:26 EST
References: <2632@gatech.UUCP> <900002@coma.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.ARPA
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL)
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In article <900002@coma.UUCP> andy@coma.UUCP writes:
>I few days ago I made my first experiences with message queues
>and I had some difficulties with long messages (loss of data).
>Perhaps that was my mistake, messages that contain just a single
>character arrive correctly.

Be warned that someone discovered a horrible bug,
such that messages were stacked (LIFO) rather than
queued (FIFO).  I don't know what releases have
this problem, but watch out.