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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_sysvipc.5 b/man/man5/proc_sysvipc.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..567388d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_sysvipc.5 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_sysvipc 5 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/sysvipc/ \- System V IPC +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/sysvipc/ +Subdirectory containing the pseudo-files +.IR msg ", " sem " and " shm "." +These files list the System V Interprocess Communication (IPC) objects +(respectively: message queues, semaphores, and shared memory) +that currently exist on the system, +providing similar information to that available via +.BR ipcs (1). +These files have headers and are formatted (one IPC object per line) +for easy understanding. +.BR sysvipc (7) +provides further background on the information shown by these files. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |