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Ipcrm

ipcrm is a Unix and Linux command which will mark System V interprocess communication API kernel entities for removal. Actual removal is deferred until the last connected process has detached.

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Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, IBM i
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ipcrm is a Unix and Linux command which will mark System V interprocess communication API kernel entities for removal. Actual removal is deferred until the last connected process has detached.

System V IPC kernel entities are:

Implementations

On Linux, the ipcrm command is provided by the util-linux package.

The ipcrm command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.1

See also

See also

References

References

  1. IBM. "IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell" (PDF). IBM. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
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