ipcs
provide information on ipc facilities
see also :
ipcrm - ipcmk
Synopsis
ipcs
[-asmq] [-tclup]
ipcs [-smq] -i id
ipcs -h
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
description
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
-q
message queues
-s
semaphore arrays
-a
all (this is the default)
The output
format may be specified as follows:
-t
time
-p
pid
-c
creator
-l
limits
-u
summary
availability
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
conforming to
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.
see also
ipcrm ,
ipcmk
author
krishna
balasubramanian (balasub[:at:]cis[:dot:]ohio-state.edu)