"ipcmk" command fails with "Invalid argument" while creating a shared memory segment of size 2 GB (2147483648).
Issue
- While creating a single shared memory segment of size 2 GiB with "ipcmk" command fail with "Invalid argument".
$ ipcmk -M 2147483648
ipcmk: create share memory failed: Invalid argument
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.18.el6.x86_64
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