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)
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/.