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How would you remove a semaphore / shared memory whose owner processes have died?

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Last Update: January 17, 2008

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July 28, 2005 19:03:08

rajndra

RE: How would you remove a semaphore / shared memory whose owner processes have died?

ipcrm -sem id ; for semaphores
ipcrm -shm id ; for shared mem

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May 17, 2007 09:24:28

raj

RE: How would you remove a semaphore / shared memory w...

shared memory can be cleaned by

shmclean
ipcrm after finding the ids using ipcs...

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January 17, 2008 07:08:58

shobhitcs

Member Since: January 2008 Contribution: 9

RE: How would you remove a semaphore / shared memory whose owner processes have died?

u can use ipcrm .....and use kill -9 <process id > to clean the process...

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