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NAME

ipcs − provide information on ipc facilities

SYNOPSIS

ipcs [ −asmq ] [ −tclup ]
ipcs [ −smq ] −i
id
ipcs −h

DESCRIPTION

ipcs provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process has read acccess.

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

SEE ALSO

ipcrm(8)

AUTHOR

krishna balasubramanian (balasub [AT] cis.edu)