ipcmk
make various IPC resources
TLDR
Create a shared memory segment
Create a semaphore
Create a message queue
Create a shared memory segment with specific permissions (default is 0644)
SYNOPSIS
ipcmk [options]
DESCRIPTION
ipcmk allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
OPTIONS
Resources can be specified with these options:
-M,--shmemsize 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,--semaphorenumber Create a semaphore array with number of elements.
Other options are:
-p,--modemode Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644.
-V,--version Display version information and exit.
-h,--help Display help text and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https:// www.kernel.org /pub /linux /utils /util-linux/ Linux Kernel Archive .
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
hayden.james@gmail.com Hayden A. James