[Toybox] Does anybody use ipcmk?

[enh]

(sysv ipc is disabled in multiple ways on Android. you can't pass CTS
with a kernel that supports it.)
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:32 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> toys/pending/ipcs.c and toys/pending/iprm.c will list and delete sysv
> inter-process communication resources (shared memory, message queue, and
> semaphore). But there's no equivalent way to create them, which makes tests hard
> to do.
>
> Ubuntu's command line has an ipcmk command from util-linux, but it's not in
> posix (or in busybox).
>
> Has anybody used this stuff much? (For shared memory segments I've just opened
> /dev/shm files and deleted them when done, and that way I can lsof them to see
> who's using what. I've installed packages that needed message queues and sysv
> semaphores, but that was mostly in the context of "I need to enable this kernel
> symbol or this thing won't work". )
>
> I want to cleanup and promote these commands, but kinda need to be able to test
> the results. I suspect I should do an ipcmk too, but since I'm not an existing
> user of the command it's hard to be confident I've done it right...
>
> Rob
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