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.   The  size  argument  may be followed by the
              multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so  on  for  GiB,  etc.  (the  "iB"  is
              optional,  e.g.,  "K"  has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000),
              and so on for GB, etc.

       -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@gmail.com⟩

AVAILABILITY

       The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive  ⟨https://
       www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.