Section (1) ipcmk
Name
ipcmk — make various IPC resources
Synopsis
ipcmk [options]
DESCRIPTION
ipcmk allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
OPTIONS
- Resources can be specified with these options:
−M, −−shmemsize-
Create a shared memory segment of size bytes. The size argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, etc. (the iB is optional, e.g., K has the same meaning as KiB) or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, etc.
−Q, −−queue-
Create a message queue.
−S, −−semaphorenumber-
Create a semaphore array with number of elements.
Other options are:
−p, −−modemode-
Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644.
−V, −−version-
Display version information and exit.
−h, −−help-
Display help text and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive
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Copyright 2008 Hayden A. James (hayden.jamesgmail.com) May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |