sunos man page for mcopymsg

mcopymsg(9F)						   Kernel Functions for Drivers 					      mcopymsg(9F)

NAME
       mcopymsg - Copy message contents into a buffer

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/stream.h>
       #include <sys/strsun.h>

       void mcopymsg(mblk_t *mp, void *buf);

INTERFACE LEVEL
       Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).

PARAMETERS
       mp	       Message to be copied.

       buf	       Buffer in which to copy.

DESCRIPTION
       The mcopymsg() function copies the contents of the specified message into the specified buffer. If the message consists of more than a sin-
       gle message block, the contents of each message block are placed consecutively into the buffer.

       The provided buffer must be large enough to accommodate the message. If the buffer is not large enough, the results  are  unspecified.  The
       msgsize(9F) function can be used to calculate the total size of the message beforehand.

RETURN VALUES
       None.

CONTEXT
       This function can be called from user, kernel or interrupt context.

SEE ALSO
       msgsize(9F)

       STREAMS Programming Guide

SunOS 5.10							    9 June 2004 						      mcopymsg(9F)