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Application Usage

       None.

Copyright

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
       for  Information  Technology  --  Portable  Operating  System  Interface  (POSIX),  The  Open  Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical  and  Electronics
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IEEE/The Open Group                                   2017                                     sys_ipc.h(7POSIX)

Description

       The  <sys/ipc.h>  header  is used by three mechanisms for XSI interprocess communication (IPC): messages,
       semaphores, and shared memory. All use a common structure type, ipc_perm, to  pass  information  used  in
       determining permission to perform an IPC operation.

       The <sys/ipc.h> header shall define the ipc_perm structure, which shall include the following members:

           uid_t    uid    Owner's user ID.
           gid_t    gid    Owner's group ID.
           uid_t    cuid   Creator's user ID.
           gid_t    cgid   Creator's group ID.
           mode_t   mode   Read/write permission.

       The  <sys/ipc.h>  header  shall  define  the  uid_t,  gid_t,  mode_t,  and  key_t  types  as described in
       <sys/types.h>.

       The <sys/ipc.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants.

       Mode bits:

       IPC_CREAT   Create entry if key does not exist.

       IPC_EXCL    Fail if key exists.

       IPC_NOWAIT  Error if request must wait.

       Keys:

       IPC_PRIVATE Private key.

       Control commands:

       IPC_RMID    Remove identifier.

       IPC_SET     Set options.

       IPC_STAT    Get options.

       The following shall be declared as a function and may also be defined as a macro.  A  function  prototype
       shall be provided.

           key_t  ftok(const char *, int);

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

Future Directions

       None.

Name

       sys/ipc.h — XSI interprocess communication access structure

Prolog

       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.