Way to monitor message queue

nagalenoj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

Is it possible to watch message queue for a new message?

We can do this by having a loop and a sleep inside it and check for new messages in the message queue. But, I feel this is not a worthy solution. If no messages are coming then it is of no use to check every time after sleep.

Is there any other way to accomplish this task? similar to select function for sockets

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Re: Way to monitor message queue by rcaputo (Chaplain) on Aug 05, 2009 at 05:40 UTC
How are the messages queued right now? If you're allowed to change the way messages are queued, consider using a message queue library. For example, POE-Component-MessageQueue. `-- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/ - irc://irc.perl.org/poe`	[reply]
Re: Way to monitor message queue by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2009 at 05:28 UTC
You might/probably want to look at POE.	[reply]
Re: Way to monitor message queue by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 05, 2009 at 06:21 UTC
What kind of message queue? Tk, Wx, WinNative, Other? Any solution offered without knowledge of the type of message queue is just pointless speculation! Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP PCW	[reply]
Re^2: Way to monitor message queue by nagalenoj (Friar) on Aug 05, 2009 at 07:04 UTC
I am referring to Unix IPC message queues, which is a way to send a block of data from one process to another.	[reply]
Re: Way to monitor message queue by cdarke (Prior) on Aug 05, 2009 at 08:04 UTC
msgrcv should block waiting for a message unless IPC_NOWAIT is set in the flags.	[reply]