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NAME

6       ipcmk - make various IPC resources
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SYNOPSIS

9       ipcmk [options]
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DESCRIPTION

12       ipcmk  allows  you to create System V inter-process communication (IPC)
13       objects: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
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OPTIONS

16       Resources can be specified with these options:
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18       -M, --shmem size
19              Create a shared memory segment of size bytes.  The size argument
20              may  be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB
21              (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, etc.  (the  "iB"  is  optional,
22              e.g.,  "K"  has  the  same  meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB
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25       -Q, --queue
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29              Create a semaphore array with number of elements.
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33       -p, --mode mode
34              Access permissions for the resource.  Default is 0644.
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36       -V, --version
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AUTHORS

43       Hayden A. James ⟨hayden.james@gmail.com⟩
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SEE ALSO

46       ipcrm(1), ipcs(1), sysvipc(7)
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AVAILABILITY

49       The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package  and  is  available
50       from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
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55util-linux                         July 2014                          IPCMK(1)