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ipcs.1: ipcs no longer needs read permission on IPC resources
authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sat, 16 May 2020 07:45:11 +0000 (09:45 +0200)
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Mon, 18 May 2020 08:35:31 +0000 (10:35 +0200)
commitae4ab16031315b95d170012d2f744e94599bf3a6
tree18f4591dd91bae51d928d91f849e140a2361458d
parentc5178f27968da09f206722cbcf73c1d4d534005f
ipcs.1: ipcs no longer needs read permission on IPC resources

With changes starting around util-linux commit 058e81540fbb0d2b78
that switched from using IPC_STAT to parsing /proc/sysvipc/*,
ipcs now shows all IPC objects rather than just the objects for
which the user has read permission. Update the page to reflect this
fact, and also add a NOTES section describing the historical and
fallback behavior where /proc is not available.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
sys-utils/ipcs.1