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From: chuck@morgan.com (Chuck Ocheret)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: ipcrm bug?
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 6 Mar 89 03:13:23 GMT
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Original-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 15:04:22 EST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 182, message 15 of 17

When the command "ipcs" is issued, you are shown stats on the System V ipc
entities; shared memory, message queues, and semaphores.  One piece of
information displayed is the key (key_t) of the entity.  The key is
displayed in hex.

The ipcrm command, which allows you to remove an ipc entity, allows you to
specify its key.  However, it only understands decimal numbers for the
key.  This is a real pain.  Especially since on System V systems ipcrm
takes keys specified in hex.

If the key is displayed in hex then commands that require the key should
accept hex values!!!

Chuck Ocheret
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
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