Posix Message Queue

Legato Application Framework
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I am trying to create a POSIX message queue in one of my COMPONENT_INIT functions and I am getting errno = 24 from the mq_open() which is the EMFILE error code. But it is the only message queue that I am trying to create in my component and my process in general (currently 2 components).

I do issue a cat /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max command it says 256, but I am only trying to open 1 queue. I am opening 1 other UART device (/dev/ttyHSL1).

Effectively I just want 1 component to set up the UART device and the other start a thread that waits on a message with serial data from the UART (invoking the mq_send from the SIGIO signal handler).

What could be the cause of this error?

Thanks!

2

Hiya,

Are you running your application inside a sandbox? You might be running into permissions issues.

Try setting sandbox=false in your ADEF file.

ciao, Dave

3

No, it is not sandboxed so it has to be something else…

4

Hi,

Is your process an app (does it have an adef file)? Which user are you running as? The rlimit RLIMIT_NOFILE may be exceeded for you process.

Alex

5

Yes, the process is an app. I’m just running as the app’s user. And besides the device I’m opening it is the only file descriptor that I am opening and the rlimit is set to 256.

6

I cannot reproduce your problem here. I am able to create message queues in sandboxed and unsandboxed apps. How do you start the app? If you could send me your adef and sources I can test it here.

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I am just installing and starting it through the Remote System Explorer in Developer Studio. I’ve just attached the whole project for you.

8

The problem is that your application is exceeding the message queue size limit. If you add the following line to your adef it should work.

mqueueSize: 10240

9

I think that is the issue. But now when I set the mqueueSize to 10240 and install and start the application, I still get:

01:20:46 -WRN- | supervisor[724]/supervisor T=main | resourceLimits.c SetRLimit() 264 | No resource limit totalPosixMsgQueueSizeLimit. Using the default value 512.
01:20:46 INFO | supervisor[724]/supervisor T=main | resourceLimits.c SetRLimit() 296 | Setting resource limit totalPosixMsgQueueSizeLimit to value 512.

output from the console

I can lower mq_msgsize and mq_maxmsg so it totals under 512 bytes and I can open the message queue with no problems. Here’s what my adef file looks like, maybe I’m defining it wrong?

executables:
Debug_project ( “SerProcComponent” “dbgComponent” )

sandboxed: false

mqueueSize: 10240

processes:
run: ( Debug_project )

groups: dialout // Needed to access UARTs

10

Your adef definition is right. I’ve tried it out here and it works. Are you running the latest Legato version from Github?

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Hi have the same problem. When I put mqueueSize: 10240 in my adef, I get an error from the compiler error: Unrecognized section name ‘mqueueSize’.

Any thoughts on this?

Evets