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i need to cretae a message queue for interprocess communication. i ma able to generate key as shown below $msgkey = IPC::SysV::ftok("$APPSYS/runner/.runnerrc$NODE", 1); variables are specific o my system. but when i am trying to generate queue identifier like $msgID = msgget($msgkey, IPC_CREAT | S_IRWXU); its failing ..i am not getting any value for $msgID.it throws Illegal seek error . Can nayone pls propose a solution Thank you