# POSIX Message Queues API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-message-queues-api/  
**Provider:** UNIX System Call — https://apis.io/providers/unix/  
**Base URL:** system://unix/mqueue  
**Documentation:** https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/mq_overview.7.html

POSIX Message Queues API is one of 11 APIs that [UNIX System Call](https://apis.io/providers/unix/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Asynchronous, IPC, Message Queues, and Messaging. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

POSIX message queue interfaces for exchanging messages between processes with priority support.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/mq_overview.7.html
- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mq_open.html

## Other UNIX System Call APIs (10)

- [File System Operations API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-system-operations-api/)
- [Process Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/process-management-api/)
- [Interprocess Communication API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/interprocess-communication-api/)
- [Memory Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/memory-management-api/)
- [System Information API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/system-information-api/)
- [POSIX Threads API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-threads-api/)
- [I/O Multiplexing API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/io-multiplexing-api/)
- [POSIX Semaphores API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-semaphores-api/)
- [Terminal and Device I/O API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/terminal-and-device-io-api/)
- [File Locking API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-locking-api/)

## Tags

Asynchronous, IPC, Message Queues, Messaging

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