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45 daemon handles the resource management for the userspace implementation of
46 the XSI Interprocess Communication functions.
47 It is responsible for mapping shared memory, semaphores and message queues
48 into the clients' address spaces and it has to be running for the
49 userspace implementation to work.
51 Clients connect to it through a
53 The daemon also monitors the
55 system call and any children of a process using the userspace
56 implementation automatically connect to the daemon too.
58 The following options are available:
59 .Bl -tag -width indent
61 run in debugging mode (prints debug messages and implies
64 do not go to the background
66 when specified, write the process ID to
68 instead of the default
69 .Pa /var/run/sysvipcd.pid .
74 variable is set in a process' environment, the process and its children
75 will use the userspace implementation of the XSI Interprocess Communication
78 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/sysvipc/sysvipc_socket" -compact
79 .It Pa /var/run/sysvipc/sysvipc_socket
82 domain stream socket for client communication