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IPCMK(1) User Commands IPCMK(1)

NAME

ipcmk - make various IPC resources

SYNOPSIS

ipcmk [options]

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

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.
Create a message queue.
Create a semaphore array with number of elements.

Other options are:

Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644.
Display version information and exit.
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.

July 2014 util-linux