IPC_INIT

Section: Kernel IPC facilities (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

ipc_init - initialise IPC subsystem  

SYNOPSIS

int ipc_init(void);
 

ARGUMENTS

void

no arguments
 

DESCRIPTION

The various system5 IPC resources (semaphores, messages and shared memory) are initialised A callback routine is registered into the memory hotplug notifier  

CHAIN

since msgmni scales to lowmem this callback routine will be called upon successful memory add / remove to recompute msmgni.  

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