ipcmk — make various IPC resources

Examples (TL;DR)

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.

See Also

ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)

Author

Hayden A. James

Availability

The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive.

Referenced By

ipcrm(1), ipcs(1), lsipc(1), pcp-ipcs(1), sysvipc(7).

July 2014 util-linux