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IPCMK(1)                                            User Commands                                            IPCMK(1)



NAME
       ipcmk - create various ipc resources

SYNOPSIS
       ipcmk <resource options> [additional options]

DESCRIPTION
       ipcmk allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues or semaphore arrays.

RESOURCE OPTIONS
       Resources may be specified as follows:

       -M, --shmem [size]
              Shared memory segment of size bytes.

       -S, --semaphore [number]
              Semaphore array with number of elements.

       -Q, --queue
              Message queue.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
       -p, --mode [mode]
              Permission for the resource. Default is 0644.

       -h, --help
              Display a short help message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Output version information and exit.

SEE ALSO
       ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)

AUTHOR
       Hayden A. James ⟨[email protected]⟩

AVAILABILITY
       The  ipcmk  command  is  part  of  the  util-linux  package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨ftp://
       ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.



util-linux                                          September 2011                                           IPCMK(1)