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28.Dd October 10, 2015
29.Dt SHMCTL 2
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm shmctl
33.Nd shared memory control
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/types.h
38.In sys/ipc.h
39.In sys/shm.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn shmctl "int shmid" "int cmd" "struct shmid_ds *buf"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43Performs the action specified by
44.Fa cmd
45on the shared memory segment identified by
46.Fa shmid :
47.Bl -tag -width SHM_UNLOCKX
48.It Dv IPC_STAT
49Fetch the segment's
50.Fa "struct shmid_ds" ,
51storing it in the memory pointed to by
52.Fa buf .
53.\"
54.\" XXX need to make sure that this is correct for FreeBSD
55.\"
56.It Dv IPC_SET
57Changes the
58.Fa shm_perm.uid ,
59.Fa shm_perm.gid ,
60and
61.Fa shm_perm.mode
62members of the segment's
63.Fa "struct shmid_ds"
64to match those of the struct pointed to by
65.Fa buf .
66The calling process's effective uid must
67match either
68.Fa shm_perm.uid
69or
70.Fa shm_perm.cuid ,
71or it must have superuser privileges.
72.It Dv IPC_RMID
73Removes the segment from the system.
74The removal will not take
75effect until all processes having attached the segment have exited.
76For the operation
77to succeed, the calling process's effective uid must match
78.Fa shm_perm.uid
79or
80.Fa shm_perm.cuid ,
81or the process must have superuser privileges.
82If the
83.Va kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed
84.Xr sysctl 3
85variable is set to 0, once the IPC_RMID operation has taken place,
86no further processes will be allowed to attach the segment.
87.\" .It Dv SHM_LOCK
88.\" Locks the segment in memory.  The calling process must have
89.\" superuser privileges. Not implemented in FreeBSD.
90.\" .It Dv SHM_UNLOCK
91.\" Unlocks the segment from memory.  The calling process must
92.\" have superuser privileges.  Not implemented in FreeBSD.
93.El
94.Pp
95The
96.Vt shmid_ds
97structure is defined as follows:
98.\"
99.\" I fiddled with the spaces a bit to make it fit well when viewed
100.\" with nroff, but otherwise it is straight from sys/shm.h
101.\"
102.Bd -literal
103struct shmid_ds {
104    struct ipc_perm shm_perm;   /* operation permission structure */
105    size_t          shm_segsz;  /* size of segment in bytes */
106    pid_t           shm_lpid;   /* process ID of last shared memory op */
107    pid_t           shm_cpid;   /* process ID of creator */
108    int             shm_nattch; /* number of current attaches */
109    time_t          shm_atime;  /* time of last shmat() */
110    time_t          shm_dtime;  /* time of last shmdt() */
111    time_t          shm_ctime;  /* time of last change by shmctl() */
112};
113.Ed
114.Sh RETURN VALUES
115.Rv -std shmctl
116.Sh ERRORS
117The
118.Fn shmctl
119system call
120will fail if:
121.Bl -tag -width Er
122.It Bq Er EINVAL
123Invalid operation, or
124no shared memory segment was found corresponding to
125.Fa shmid .
126.\"
127.\" XXX I think the following is right: ipcperm() only returns EPERM
128.\"	when an attempt is made to modify (IPC_M) by a non-creator
129.\"	non-owner
130.It Bq Er EPERM
131The calling process's effective uid does not match the uid of
132the shared memory segment's owner or creator.
133.It Bq Er EACCES
134Permission denied due to mismatch between operation and mode of
135shared memory segment.
136.El
137.Sh "SEE ALSO"
138.Xr shmat 2 ,
139.Xr shmdt 2 ,
140.Xr shmget 2 ,
141.Xr ftok 3
142