ipc_init (9) Linux Manual Page
ipc_init – initialise ipc subsystem
Synopsis
int ipc_init(void);Arguments
void
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- no arguments
Description
The various sysv ipc resources (semaphores, messages and shared memory) are initialised.
A callback routine is registered into the memory hotplug notifier chain: since msgmni scales to lowmem this callback routine will be called upon successful memory add / remove to recompute msmgni.