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📖 NAME

lslocks - list local system locks

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
List all file locks	lslocks	Display all currently held file locks on the system.
Output in JSON format	lslocks -J	Get machine-readable JSON output.
Filter by process PID	lslocks -p pid	Show only locks held by a specific process.
Raw (unformatted) output	lslocks -r	Use raw output format (no column alignment).
Prevent text truncation	lslocks -u	Display full paths and column values without truncation.
Show blocker column	lslocks -o +BLOCKER	Extend default columns to include the blocker PID.
Hide inaccessible files	lslocks -i	Skip lock files that cannot be read by the current user.

📖 SYNOPSIS

lslocks [options]

📝 DESCRIPTION

lslocks lists information about all the currently held file locks in a Linux system.

Note that lslocks also lists OFD (Open File Description) locks, these locks are not associated with any process (PID is -1). OFD locks are associated with the open file description on which they are acquired. This lock type is available since Linux 3.15, see fcntl(2) for more details.

⚙️ OPTIONS

🔹 -b, --bytes

Print the SIZE column in bytes rather than in a human-readable format.

🔹 -i, --noinaccessible

Ignore lock files which are inaccessible for the current user.

🔹 -J, --json

Use JSON output format.

🔹 -n, --noheadings

Do not print a header line.

🔹 -o, --output list

Specify which output columns to print. Use --help to get a list of all supported columns.

The default list of columns may be extended if list is specified in the format +list (e.g., lslocks -o +BLOCKER).

🔹 --output-all

Output all available columns.

🔹 -p, --pid pid

Display only the locks held by the process with this pid.

🔹 -r, --raw

Use the raw output format.

🔹 -u, --notruncate

Do not truncate text in columns.

🔹 -V, --version

Display version information and exit.

🔹 -h, --help

Display help text and exit.

📊 OUTPUT

COMMAND — The command name of the process holding the lock.

PID — The process ID of the process which holds the lock or -1 for OFDLCK.

TYPE — The type of lock; can be FLOCK (created with flock(2)), POSIX (created with fcntl(2) and lockf(3)) or OFDLCK (created with fcntl(2)).

SIZE — Size of the locked file.

MODE — The lock's access permissions (read, write). If the process is blocked and waiting for the lock, then the mode is postfixed with an '*' (asterisk).

M — Whether the lock is mandatory; 0 means no (meaning the lock is only advisory), 1 means yes. (See fcntl(2).)

START — Relative byte offset of the lock.

END — Ending offset of the lock.

PATH — Full path of the lock. If none is found, or there are no permissions to read the path, it will fall back to the device's mountpoint and "..." is appended to the path. The path might be truncated; use --notruncate to get the full path.

BLOCKER — The PID of the process which blocks the lock.

📝 NOTES

The lslocks command is meant to replace the lslk(8) command, originally written by Victor A. Abell <abe AT purdue.edu> and unmaintained since 2001.

👤 AUTHORS

Davidlohr Bueso <dave AT gnu.org>

🔗 SEE ALSO

flock(1), fcntl(2), lockf(3)

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

📦 AVAILABILITY

The lslocks command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

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