Name

ipc_init — initialise IPC subsystem

Synopsis

int ipc_init ( void);
 

Arguments

void

no arguments

Description

The various system5 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.