IPCS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME
ipcs - show information on IPC facilities
SYNOPSIS
ipcs [options]
DESCRIPTION
ipcs shows information on System V inter-process communication facilities. By default it shows information about all three resources: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
OPTIONS
-i, --id id
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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
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Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
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Display version and exit.
Resource options
-m, --shmems
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Write information about active shared memory segments.
-q, --queues
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Write information about active message queues.
-s, --semaphores
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Write information about active semaphore sets.
-a, --all
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Write information about all three resources (default).
Output formats
Of these options only one takes effect: the last one specified.
-c, --creator
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Show creator and owner.
-l, --limits
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Show resource limits.
-p, --pid
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Show PIDs of creator and last operator.
-t, --time
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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
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Show status summary.
Representation
These affect only the -l (--limits) option.
-b, --bytes
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Print the sizes in bytes rather than in a human-readable format.
By default, the unit, sizes are expressed in, is byte, and unit prefixes are in
power of 2^10 (1024). Abbreviations of symbols are exhibited truncated in order
to reach a better readability, by exhibiting alone the first letter of them;
examples: "1 KiB" and "1 MiB" are respectively exhibited as "1 K" and "1 M",
then omitting on purpose the mention "iB", which is part of these abbreviations.
--human
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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.
NOTES
The current implementation of ipcs obtains information about available IPC resources by parsing the files in /proc/sysvipc. Before util-linux version v2.23, an alternate mechanism was used: the IPC_STAT command of msgctl(2), semctl(2), and shmctl(2). This mechanism is also used in later util-linux versions in the case where /proc is unavailable. A limitation of the IPC_STAT mechanism is that it can only be used to retrieve information about IPC resources for which the user has read permission.
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
ipcmk(1),
ipcrm(1),
msgrcv(2),
msgsnd(2),
semget(2),
semop(2),
shmat(2),
shmdt(2),
shmget(2),
sysvipc(7)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the
https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker
AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- Resource options
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- Output formats
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- Representation
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- CONFORMING TO
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- NOTES
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- AVAILABILITY
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