| .\" Copyright 2008 Hayden A. James (hayden.james@gmail.com) |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH IPCMK "1" "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" |
| .SH "NAME" |
| ipcmk \- make various IPC resources |
| .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| .B ipcmk |
| [options] |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| .B ipcmk |
| allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues, |
| and semaphore arrays. |
| .SH "OPTIONS" |
| .TP |
| Resources can be specified with these options: |
| .TP |
| .BR \-M , " \-\-shmem " \fIsize |
| Create a shared memory segment of |
| .I size |
| bytes. |
| .TP |
| .BR \-Q , " \-\-queue" |
| Create a message queue. |
| .TP |
| .BR \-S , " \-\-semaphore " \fInumber |
| Create a semaphore array with |
| .I number |
| of elements. |
| .PP |
| Other options are: |
| .TP |
| .BR \-p , " \-\-mode " \fImode |
| Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644. |
| .TP |
| .BR \-V , " \-\-version" |
| Display version information and exit. |
| .TP |
| .BR \-h , " \-\-help" |
| Display help text and exit. |
| .PP |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR ipcrm (1), |
| .BR ipcs (1) |
| .SH "AUTHOR" |
| .MT hayden.james@gmail.com |
| Hayden A. James |
| .ME |
| .SH "AVAILABILITY" |
| The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| .UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/ |
| Linux Kernel Archive |
| .UE . |
