IPCMK(1)                                  User Commands                                  IPCMK(1)



NAME
       ipcmk - make various IPC resources

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.

       -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 ⟨hayden.james AT gmail.com⟩

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                                  July 2014                                    IPCMK(1)