lslocks: add lslocks.8 man page

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

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+.\" lslocks.8 --
+.\" Copyright 2012 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
+.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
+
+.TH LSLOCKS 8 "February 2012" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.SH NAME
+lslocks \-
+list local system locks
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B lslocks
+.RB [options]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B lslocks
+lists information about all the file held locks in a Linux system.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP "\fB\-p, \-\-pid\fP"
+Specify the process id, if none is given, it will display all locks
+.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
+Print a help text and exit.
+.IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output \fIlist\fP"
+Specify which output columns to print. Use
+.B "--help"
+to get a list of all supported columns.
+.IP "\fB\-\-noheadings\fP"
+Do not print a header line.
+
+.IP "\fB\-\-raw\fP"
+Use the raw output format.
+
+.SH OUTPUT
+.IP "COMMAND"
+The command name of the process holding the lock.
+
+.IP "PID"
+Process ID which holds the lock.
+
+.IP "SIZE"
+Size of the locked file.
+
+.IP "ACCESS"
+Lock access permissions (read, write).
+
+.IP "M"
+Mandatory state of the lock: 0 if none; 1 if set.  (See chmod(1)).
+
+.IP "START"
+Relative byte offset of the lock.
+
+.IP "END"
+Ending offset of the lock.
+
+.IP "PATH"
+Full path of the lock - if none is found or no permissions to read the path it
+will fallback to the device's mountpoint.
+
+.SH NOTES
+.nf
+The lslocks command is meant to replace the lslk(8) command, originally written by
+Victor A. Abell <abe@purdue.edu> and unmaintained since 2001.
+.fi
+
+.SH AUTHORS
+.nf
+Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
+.fi
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR flock (1)
+
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The lslocks command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.