From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 13:26:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA02240 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA02211 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA00804 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA23659; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:12:00 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA26773; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:12:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA04562; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:54:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608091854.UAA04562@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: SYSV msg, sem, shm interface To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:54:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Aug 9, 96 10:37:12 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Are there any manpages/dox available on the subject of > SYSV IPC (as implemented in FreeBSD)? I know there is ipctut, > but it covers only pipes & sockets. j@uriah 83% ( apropos msg ; apropos sem ; apropos shm ) | grep -E '^(msg|sem|shm)' msgctl(3) - message control operations msgget(3) - get message queue msgrcv(3) - receive a message from a message queue msgs(1) - system messages and junk mail program msgsnd(3) - send a message to a message queue semctl(2) - control operations on a semaphore set semget(2) - obtain a semaphore id semop(2) - atomic array of operations on a semaphore set shmat(2), shmdt(2) - attach or detach shared memory shmctl(2) - shared memory control shmget(2) - obtain a shared memory identifier (They were not available yet in 2.1R, however.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)