NAME

ipcs - provide information on IPC facilities

SYNOPSIS

ipcs [resource-option] [output-format]
ipcs [resource-option] -i id

DESCRIPTION

ipcs provides information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read access.

OPTIONS

-i, --id id: Print details only on the resource identified by id.
-h, --help: Display a help text and exit.
-V, --version: Display version information and exit.

Resource options

-q, --queues: Write information about active message queues.
-m, --shmems: Write information about active shared memory segments.
-s, --semaphores: Write information about active semaphore sets.
-a, --all: Write information about all three resources (default).

Output formats

Of these options only one takes effect: the last one specified.

-c, --creator: Show creator and owner.
-l, --limits: Show resource limits.
-p, --pid: Show PIDs of creator and last operator.
-t, --time: Write time information. The time of the last control operation that changed the access permissions for all facilities, the time of the last msgsnd() and msgrcv() operations on message queues, the time of the last shmat() and shmdt() operations on shared memory, and the time of the last semop() operation on semaphores.
-u, --summary: Show status summary.

Representation

These affect only the -l (--limits) option.

-b, --bytes: Print sizes in bytes.
--human: Print sizes in human-readable format.

CONFORMING TO

The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility. The Linux version does not support the POSIX -a, -b and -o options, but does support the -l and -u options not defined by POSIX. A portable application shall not use the -a, -b, -o, -l, and -u options.

AUTHOR

Krishna Balasubramanian

AVAILABILITY

The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive.