sys-utils/ipcs.1

   1 .\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
   2 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
   3 .TH IPCS 1 "9 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
   4 .SH NAME
   5 ipcs \- provide information on ipc facilities
   6 .SH SYNOPSIS
   7 .B ipcs [ \-asmq ] [ \-tclup ]
   8 .br
   9 .BI "ipcs [ \-smq ] \-i " id
  10 .br
  11 .B ipcs \-h
  12 .SH DESCRIPTION
  13 .B ipcs
  14 provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process
  15 has read access.
  16
  17 The
  18 .B \-i
  19 option allows a specific resource
  20 .I id
  21 to be specified.  Only information on this
  22 .I id
  23 will be printed.
  24
  25 Resources may be specified as follows:
  26 .TP
  27 .B \-m
  28 shared memory segments
  29 .TP
  30 .B \-q
  31 message queues
  32 .TP
  33 .B \-s
  34 semaphore arrays
  35 .TP
  36 .B \-a
  37 all (this is the default)
  38 .PP
  39 The output format may be specified as follows:
  40 .TP
  41 .B \-t
  42 time
  43 .TP
  44 .B \-p
  45 pid
  46 .TP
  47 .B \-c
  48 creator
  49 .TP
  50 .B \-l
  51 limits
  52 .TP
  53 .B \-u
  54 summary
  55 .SH SEE ALSO
  56 .BR ipcrm (1)
  57 .SH AUTHOR
  58 krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)
  59 .SH AVAILABILITY
  60 The ipcs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
  61 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.