Ipcs Explained

ipcs
Developer:	Various open-source and commercial developers
Operating System:	Unix, Unix-like, IBM i
Genre:	Command

ipcs is a Unix and Linux command^[1] to list System V InterProcess Communication System's API kernel entities to stdout.System V IPC kernel entities are:

• Shared memory segments
• Message queues
• Semaphore arrays

Implementations

On Linux, the command is provided by the util-linux package.

The command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.^[2]

See also

• List of Unix commands
• ipcrm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ipcs(1) - Linux manual page.
2. Web site: IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell . en . IBM . IBM . 2020-09-05.