IPCMK

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (1)
Updated: 21 March 2008
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NAME

ipcmk - create various ipc resources  

SYNOPSIS

ipcmk -h
ipcmk [-M size] [-S nsems] [-Q] [-p mode]  

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

Resources may be specified as follows:
-M size
shared memory segment of size size
-S nsems
semaphore array with nsems elements
-Q
message queue
Other options
-p mode
permission for the resource (default is 0644)
-h
display a short help message and exit

 

SEE ALSO

ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)  

AUTHOR

Hayden A. James (hayden.james@gmail.com)  

AVAILABILITY

The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.