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GETPAGESIZE(3) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual GETPAGESIZE(3)
NAME
getpagesize - get system page size
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
getpagesize(void);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by sysconf(3). Use sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE).
The getpagesize() function returns the number of bytes in a page. Page
granularity is the granularity of many of the memory management calls.
The page size is a system page size and may not be the same as the under-
lying hardware page size.
SEE ALSO
pagesize(1), sbrk(2), sysconf(3)
HISTORY
The getpagesize() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
OpenBSD 2.6 June 4, 1993 1
Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others. |
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