ipcs — show information on IPC facilities
ipcs
[options]
ipcs shows information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read access. By default it shows information about all three resources: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
−i
, −−id
idShow full details on just the one resource element
identified by id. This option needs
to be combined with one of the three resource options:
−m
, −q
or −s
.
−h
, −−help
Display help text and exit.
−V
, −−version
Display version information and exit.
−m
, −−shmems
Write information about active shared memory segments.
−q
, −−queues
Write information about active message queues.
−s
, −−semaphores
Write information about active semaphore sets.
−a
, −−all
Write information about all three resources (default).
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.
ipcrm(1), ipcmk(1), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semget(2), semop(2), shmat(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2)
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.
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive
Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faithcs.unc.edu) May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |