NAME¶

ipcmk - create various ipc resources

SYNOPSIS¶

ipcmk <resource options> [additional options]

DESCRIPTION¶

ipcmk allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues or semaphore arrays.

RESOURCE OPTIONS¶

Resources may be specified as follows:

-M, --shmem [size]

Shared memory segment of size bytes.

-S, --semaphore [number]

Semaphore array with number of elements.

-Q, --queue

Message queue.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS¶

-p, --mode [mode]

Permission for the resource. Default is 0644.

-h, --help

Display a short help message and exit.

-V, --version

Output version information 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.