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+# Sysvmq
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+This aims to be a easy usable API for SysV IPC message queues.
+
+    Note: This library is work in progress.
+
+Currently supported operations are only `create` and `unlink`. The
+`create` operation creates a SysV IPC message queue and the `unlink`
+operation deletes such a SysV IPC message queue.