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, --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.
AUTHOR
Hayden A. JamesAVAILABILITY
The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive