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IPCMK
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 2021-06-02
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NAME
ipcmk - make various IPC resourcesSYNOPSIS
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
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/>.
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