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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 09:09:27 +0000 (11:09 +0200)
commit821753983bb4d50610b8380cdc39246b24eee92b
treeb7a962871e7352aa8468223996276839f2453bb3
parent603ec8a40ff5ff3baf2afc02475587d5b3498d1f
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