1IPC::SysV(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation IPC::SysV(3)
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6 IPC::SysV - System V IPC constants and system calls
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9 use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_STAT IPC_PRIVATE);
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12 "IPC::SysV" defines and conditionally exports all the constants defined
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16 IPC_CREAT IPC_EXCL IPC_NOWAIT IPC_PRIVATE IPC_RMID IPC_SET IPC_STAT
17 GETVAL SETVAL GETPID GETNCNT GETZCNT GETALL SETALL
18 SEM_A SEM_R SEM_UNDO
19 SHM_RDONLY SHM_RND SHMLBA
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23 S_IRUSR S_IWUSR S_IRWXU
24 S_IRGRP S_IWGRP S_IRWXG
25 S_IROTH S_IWOTH S_IRWXO
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29 ftok( PATH )
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32 "msgget", "semget" and "shmget". See ftok(3).
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37 shmat( ID, ADDR, FLAG )
38 Attach the shared memory segment identified by ID to the address
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44 Detach the shared memory segment located at the address specified
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48 memread( ADDR, VAR, POS, SIZE )
49 Reads SIZE bytes from a memory segment at ADDR starting at position
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61 IPC::Msg, IPC::Semaphore, IPC::SharedMem, ftok(3), shmat(2), shmdt(2)
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64 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Marcus
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68 Version 2.x, Copyright (C) 2007-2013, Marcus Holland-Moritz.
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70 Version 1.x, Copyright (c) 1997, Graham Barr.
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72 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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