ipcs(1) - Linux man page

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)

Author

krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)

Availability

The ipcs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

Referenced By

proc(5), pvm_shmd(1), x11vnc(1)