.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH IPCS 1 "9 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ipcs \- provide information on ipc facilities
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ipcs [ \-asmq ] [ \-tclup ]
.br
.BI "ipcs [ \-smq ] \-i " id
.br
.B ipcs \-h
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ipcs
provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process
has read access.

The
.B \-i
option allows a specific resource
.I id
to be specified.  Only information on this
.I id
will be printed.

Resources may be specified as follows:
.TP
.B \-m
shared memory segments
.TP
.B \-q
message queues
.TP
.B \-s
semaphore arrays
.TP
.B \-a
all (this is the default)
.PP
The output format may be specified as follows:
.TP
.B \-t
time
.TP
.B \-p
pid
.TP
.B \-c
creator
.TP
.B \-l
limits
.TP
.B \-u
summary
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ipcrm (1)
.SH AUTHOR
krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)
.SH 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/.