| .\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH IPCS 1 "9 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| ipcs \- provide information on ipc facilities |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B ipcs |
| .RB [ \-asmq ] |
| .RB [ \-tclup ] |
| .br |
| .B ipcs |
| .RB [ \-smq ] |
| .BI \-i " id" |
| .br |
| .B ipcs \-h |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B ipcs |
| provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process |
| has read access. |
| |
| The |
| .B \-i |
| option allows a specific resource |
| .I id |
| to be specified. Only information on this |
| .I id |
| will be printed. |
| |
| Resources may be specified as follows: |
| .TP |
| .B \-m |
| shared memory segments |
| .TP |
| .B \-q |
| message queues |
| .TP |
| .B \-s |
| semaphore arrays |
| .TP |
| .B \-a |
| all (this is the default) |
| .PP |
| The output format may be specified as follows: |
| .TP |
| .B \-t |
| time |
| .TP |
| .B \-p |
| pid |
| .TP |
| .B \-c |
| creator |
| .TP |
| .B \-l |
| limits |
| .TP |
| .B \-u |
| summary |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR ipcrm (1), |
| .BR ipcmk (1) |
| .SH CONFORMING TO |
| The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility. |
| The Linux version does not support the |
| .B \-b |
| and |
| .B \-o |
| options, but does support the |
| .B \-l |
| and |
| .B \-u |
| options not defined by POSIX. The portable application shall not use the |
| .BR \-a , |
| .BR \-b , |
| .BR \-o , |
| .BR \-l , |
| and |
| .B \-u |
| options. |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu) |
| .SH 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/. |
