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.\" Copyright 2008 Hayden A. James (hayden.james@gmail.com)
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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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.TH "IPCMK" "1" "21 March 2008" "ipcmk" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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ipcmk \- create various ipc resources
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.B ipcmk [ \-M \fIsize\fR ] [ \-p \fImode\fR ]
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.B ipcmk [ \-S \fInsems\fR ] [ \-p \fImode\fR ]
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.B ipcmk [ \-Q ] [ \-p \fImode\fR ]
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allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues or semaphore arrays.
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Resources may be specified as follows:
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shared memory segment of size \fB\fIsize\fR\fR
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semaphore array with \fB\fInsems\fR\fR elements
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permission for the resource (default is 0644)
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Hayden A. James (hayden.james@gmail.com)
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The ipcmk command is part of the util\-linux\-ng package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util\-linux\-ng/.