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+.\" 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 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
+.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)