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), 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-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
Referenced By
msgctl(2),
proc(5),
pvm_shmd(1),
semctl(2),
shmctl(2),
svipc(7),
x11vnc(1)