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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, --shmem size
Create a shared memory segment of size bytes.
-Q, --queue
Create a message queue.
-S, --semaphore number
Create a semaphore array with number of elements.

Other options are:

-p, --mode mode
Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.

See Also

ipcrm(1) , ipcs(1)

Author

Hayden A. James

Availability

The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive

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