IPCS(1) User Commands IPCS(1)NAMEipcs - show information on IPC facilities
SYNOPSISipcs [options]
DESCRIPTIONipcs 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.
OPTIONS-i, --id id
Show 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.
Resource options
-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).
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(2) and msgrcv(2) operations on message
queues, the time of the last shmat(2) and shmdt(2) operations on
shared memory, and the time of the last semop(2) 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.
SEE ALSOipcmk(1), ipcrm(1), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semget(2), semop(2),
shmat(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2)CONFORMING TO
The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs util‐
ity. 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 ⟨balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu⟩
AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
linux/⟩.
util-linux July 2014 IPCS(1)
