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lsipc(1)

NAME

lsipc – show information on IPC facilities currently employed in the system

SYNOPSIS

lsipc [options]

DESCRIPTION

lsipc shows information on the System V 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

Produce output in the form of key="value" pairs. All potentially unsafe value characters are hex-escaped (