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Application Usage
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Asynchronous Events
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Consequences Of Errors
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 IPCRM(1POSIX)
Description
The ipcrm utility shall remove zero or more message queues, semaphore sets, or shared memory segments.
The interprocess communication facilities to be removed are specified by the options.
Only a user with appropriate privileges shall be allowed to remove an interprocess communication facility
that was not created by or owned by the user invoking ipcrm.
Environment Variables
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of ipcrm:
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the
Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section8.2, InternationalizationVariables for the
precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale
categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization
variables.
LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters
(for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic
messages written to standard error.
NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
Examples
None.
Exit Status
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
Extended Description
None.
Future Directions
None.
Input Files
None.
Name
ipcrm — remove an XSI message queue, semaphore set, or shared memory segment identifier
Operands
None.
Options
The ipcrm utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section12.2, UtilitySyntaxGuidelines.
The following options shall be supported:
-qmsgid Remove the message queue identifier msgid from the system and destroy the message queue and
data structure associated with it.
-mshmid Remove the shared memory identifier shmid from the system. The shared memory segment and data
structure associated with it shall be destroyed after the last detach.
-ssemid Remove the semaphore identifier semid from the system and destroy the set of semaphores and
data structure associated with it.
-Qmsgkey Remove the message queue identifier, created with key msgkey, from the system and destroy the
message queue and data structure associated with it.
-Mshmkey Remove the shared memory identifier, created with key shmkey, from the system. The shared
memory segment and data structure associated with it shall be destroyed after the last detach.
-Ssemkey Remove the semaphore identifier, created with key semkey, from the system and destroy the set
of semaphores and data structure associated with it.
Output Files
None.
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.
Rationale
None.
See Also
ipcs
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter8, EnvironmentVariables, Section12.2, UtilitySyntaxGuidelines
The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, msgctl(), semctl(), shmctl()
Stderr
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
Stdin
Not used.
Stdout
Not used.
Synopsis
ipcrm [-q msgid|-Q msgkey|-s semid|-S semkey|-m shmid|-M shmkey]...
