GNU/Linux |
Debian 6.0.4(Squeeze) |
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ipcs(1) |
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ipcs − provide information on ipc facilities
ipcs
[−asmq] [−tclup]
ipcs [−smq] −i id
ipcs −h
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 |
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−q |
message queues |
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−s |
semaphore arrays |
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−a |
all (this is the default) |
The output format may be specified as follows:
−t |
time |
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−p |
pid |
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−c |
creator |
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−l |
limits |
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−u |
summary |
ipcrm(1), ipcmk(1)
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.
krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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/.
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