IPCS(1) 		   Linux Programmer's Manual		       IPCS(1)



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 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

SEE ALSO
       ipcrm(1)

AUTHOR
       krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)

AVAILABILITY
       The  ipcs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
       from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.



Linux 0.99			9 October 1993			       IPCS(1)