IPCS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 2008
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NAME
ipcs - provide information on ipc facilities
SYNOPSIS
ipcs
[
-asmq]
[
-tclup]
ipcs
[
-smq]
-i id
ipcs -h
DESCRIPTION
ipcs
provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process
has read access.
The
-i
option allows a specific resource
id
to be specified. Only information on this
id
will be printed.
Resources may be specified as follows:
- -m
-
shared memory segments
- -q
-
message queues
- -s
-
semaphore arrays
- -a
-
all (this is the default)
The output format may be specified as follows:
- -t
-
time
- -p
-
pid
- -c
-
creator
- -l
-
limits
- -u
-
summary
SEE ALSO
ipcrm(1),
ipcmk(1)
CONFORMING TO
The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility.
The Linux version does not support the
-b
and
-o
options, but does support the
-l
and
-u
options not defined by POSIX. The portable application shall not use the
-a,
-b,
-o,
-l,
and
-u
options.
AUTHOR
krishna balasubramanian (
balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)
AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Index
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