1
2LSLOCKS(8) System Administration LSLOCKS(8)
3
4
5
7 lslocks - list local system locks
8
10 lslocks [options]
11
12
14 lslocks lists information about all the currently held file locks in a
15 Linux system.
16
17 Note that lslocks also lists OFD (Open File Description) locks, these
18 locks are not associated with any process (PID is -1). OFD locks are
19 associated with the open file description on which they are acquired.
20 This lock type is available since Linux 3.15, see fcntl(2) for more
21 details.
22
23
25 -i, --noinaccessible
26 Ignore lock files which are inaccessible for the current user.
27
28 -J, --json
29 Use JSON output format.
30
31 -n, --noheadings
32 Do not print a header line.
33
34 -o, --output list
35 Specify which output columns to print. Use --help to get a list
36 of all supported columns.
37
38 The default list of columns may be extended if list is specified
39 in the format +list (e.g. lslocks -o +BLOCKER).
40
41 -p, --pid pid
42 Display only the locks held by the process with this pid.
43
44 -r, --raw
45 Use the raw output format.
46
47 -u, --notruncate
48 Do not truncate text in columns.
49
50 -V, --version
51 Display version information and exit.
52
53 -h, --help
54 Display help text and exit.
55
56
58 COMMAND
59 The command name of the process holding the lock.
60
61 PID The process ID of the process which holds the lock or -1 for
62 OFDLCK.
63
64 TYPE The type of lock; can be FLOCK (created with flock(2)), POSIX
65 (created with fcntl(2) and lockf(3)) or OFDLCK (created with
66 fcntl(2).
67
68 SIZE Size of the locked file.
69
70 MODE The lock's access permissions (read, write). If the process is
71 blocked and waiting for the lock, then the mode is postfixed
72 with an '*' (asterisk).
73
74 M Whether the lock is mandatory; 0 means no (meaning the lock is
75 only advisory), 1 means yes. (See fcntl(2).)
76
77 START Relative byte offset of the lock.
78
79 END Ending offset of the lock.
80
81 PATH Full path of the lock. If none is found, or there are no per‐
82 missions to read the path, it will fall back to the device's
83 mountpoint and "..." is appended to the path. The path might be
84 truncated; use --notruncate to get the full path.
85
86 BLOCKER
87 The PID of the process which blocks the lock.
88
89
91 The lslocks command is meant to replace the lslk(8) command,
92 originally written by Victor A. Abell <abe@purdue.edu> and unmaintained
93 since 2001.
94
95
97 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
98
99
101 flock(1), fcntl(2), lockf(3)
102
103
105 The lslocks command is part of the util-linux package and is available
106 from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
107
108
109
110util-linux December 2014 LSLOCKS(8)