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.\"      Date: January 2017
.\"    Manual: Kernel IPC facilities
.\"    Source: Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.15
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "IPC_INIT" "9" "January 2017" "Kernel Hackers Manual 4\&.8\&." "Kernel IPC facilities"
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.SH "NAME"
ipc_init \- initialise ipc subsystem
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'int\ ipc_init('u
.BI "int ipc_init(" "void" ");"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fIvoid\fR
.RS 4
no arguments
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
.PP
The various sysv ipc resources (semaphores, messages and shared memory) are initialised\&.
.PP
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\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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