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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-01-06 20:27:22 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-01-06 20:27:22 +0100
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clone.2: CLONE_NEWIPC governs mechanisms that don't have filesystem pathnames
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ and (since Linux 2.6.30)
POSIX message queues
(see
.BR mq_overview (7)).
+The common characteristic of these IPC mechanisms is that IPC
+objects are identified by mechanisms other than filesystem
+pathnames.
Objects created in an IPC namespace are visible to all other processes
that are members of that namespace,