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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 System V inter-process communication (IPC) objects: 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. 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, --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.
AUTHORS¶
Hayden A. James <hayden.james@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO¶
REPORTING BUGS¶
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY¶
The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
| 2022-02-14 | util-linux 2.37.4 |