1IPCMK(1)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  IPCMK(1)
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NAME

6       ipcmk - create various ipc resources
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SYNOPSIS

9       ipcmk -h
10       ipcmk [-M size] [-S nsems] [-Q] [-p mode]
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DESCRIPTION

13       ipcmk  allows  you  to create shared memory segments, message queues or
14       semaphore arrays.
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OPTIONS

17       Resources may be specified as follows:
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22              The size argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes
23              KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, etc. (the "iB"
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37       -h     display a short help message and exit
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SEE ALSO

40       ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)
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AUTHOR

43       Hayden A. James (hayden.james@gmail.com)
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AVAILABILITY

46       The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
47       from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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51ipcmk                            21 March 2008                        IPCMK(1)