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 package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.