Disable All Advertising

1. Executable programs or shell commands

Enter a Linux command to search for:

IPCMK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2021-06-02
Index  |  Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

ipcmk - make various IPC resources  

SYNOPSIS

ipcmk [options]  

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

ipcrm(1), ipcs(1), sysvipc(7)  

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/>.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY

Return to Main Contents