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30.Dd March 18, 2020
31.Dt POSIXSHMCONTROL 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm posixshmcontrol
35.Nd Control POSIX shared memory segments
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Ar create
39.Op Fl m Ar mode
40.Op Pa path \&...
41.Nm
42.Ar rm
43.Op Pa path \&...
44.Nm
45.Ar ls
46.Op Fl h
47.Op Fl n
48.Nm
49.Ar dump
50.Op Pa path \&...
51.Nm
52.Ar stat
53.Op Fl h
54.Op Fl n
55.Op Pa path \&...
56.Nm
57.Ar truncate
58.Op Fl s Ar length
59.Op Pa path \&...
60.Sh DESCRIPTION
61The
62.Nm
63command manipulates the named POSIX shared memory segments.
64It allows inspecting existing segments, dumping their metadata or contents,
65and unlinking them.
66.Pp
67Unlinking removes the name from the system and, when the last process
68unmaps the segment and closes file descriptor pointing to the segment,
69frees underlying memory.
70.Pp
71The number of hard links as displayed by the
72.Ic stat
73subcommand, is equal to the number of references to the underlying VM
74object.
75It is almost always equal to the number of mappings +1, except
76for transient references.
77.Pp
78The following subcommands are provided:
79.Bl -tag -width truncate
80.It Ic create
81Create segments with the specified paths, if not exist.
82The
83.Ar mode
84optional numerical argument specifies initial access mode.
85.It Ic rm
86Unlink the paths specified.
87.It Ic ls
88List all linked named shared memory segments visible to the caller.
89For each segment, the user and group owner, size, and path are displayed.
90.It Ic dump
91Output raw bytes values from the segment to standard output.
92.It Ic stat
93Print metadata for the specified path, in the format similar to the
94.Xr stat 1
95utility.
96.It Ic truncate
97Change the length of the segments.
98Argument to the
99.Fl s
100option specifies new length.
101The human-friendly 'k', 'm', 'g' suffixes can be used, see
102.Xr expand_number 3 .
103If the option is not specified, assumed length is zero.
104.El
105.Pp
106For some commands, the following options may be provided:
107.Bl -tag -width XXX
108.It Fl h
109If specified, requests human-readable display of size, see
110.Xr humanize_number 3 .
111.It Fl n
112Prevent translation of owner and group into symbolic names
113using name-switch services, instead the raw numeric values are printed.
114.El
115.Sh EXIT STATUS
116.Ex -std
117.Sh EXAMPLES
118.Bl -bullet
119.It
120To show content of the shared memory segment with the path
121.Pa /1 ,
122use the command
123.Dl "posixshmcontrol dump /q | hexdump -C"
124.It
125To create a segment with the path
126.Pa /2
127and then enlarge it to 1M, use the sequence of commands
128.Dl "posixshmcontrol create /2"
129.Dl "posixshmcontrol truncate -s 1m /2"
130.El
131.Sh SEE ALSO
132.Xr hexdump 1 ,
133.Xr stat 1 ,
134.Xr ftruncate 2 ,
135.Xr read 2 ,
136.Xr shm_open 2 ,
137.Xr shm_unlink 2 ,
138.Xr stat 2 ,
139.Xr expand_number 3 ,
140.Xr humanize_number 3 ,
141.Xr sysctl 3
142.Sh HISTORY
143The
144.Nm
145command appeared in
146.Fx 12.1 .
147.Sh AUTHORS
148The
149.Nm
150command and this manual page were written by
151.An Konstantin Belousov Aq Mt kib@freebsd.org
152under sponsorship from The
153.Fx
154Foundation.
155