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LSIPC(1)                                            User Commands                                            LSIPC(1)



NAME
       lsipc - show information on IPC facilities currently employed in the system

SYNOPSIS
       lsipc [options]

DESCRIPTION
       lsipc  shows  information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read
       access.

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.  It is possible to override the default output
              format for this option with the --list, --raw, --json or --export option.

       -g, --global
              Show system-wide usage and limits of IPC resources.  This option may be combined with one of the  three
              resource options: -m, -q or -s.  The default is to show information about all resources.

       -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.

   Output formatting
       -c, --creator
              Show creator and owner.

       -e, --export
              Output data in the format of NAME=VALUE.

       -l, --list
              Use the list output format.  This is the default, except when --id is used.

       -n, --newline
              Display each piece of information on a separate line.

       --noheadings
              Do not print a header line.

       --notruncate
              Don't truncate output.

       -o, --output list

              semaphores.

       --time-format type
              Display dates in short, full or iso format.  The default is short, this time format is designed  to  be
              space efficient and human readable.


EXIT STATUS
       0      if OK,

       1      if incorrect arguments specified,

       2      if a serious error occurs.

SEE ALSO
       ipcrm(1), ipcmk(1), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semget(2), semop(2), shmat(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2)

HISTORY
       The lsipc utility is inspired by the ipcs utility.

AUTHORS
       Ondrej Oprala ⟨[email protected]⟩
       Karel Zak ⟨[email protected]⟩


AVAILABILITY
       The  lsipc  command  is  part  of  the  util-linux  package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨ftp://
       ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.



util-linux                                          November 2015                                            LSIPC(1)