GETPAGESIZE(3)
Library Functions Manual
GETPAGESIZE(3)
NAME
getpagesize
—
get system page size
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <
unistd.h
>
int
getpagesize
(
void
);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by
sysconf(3)
.
getpagesize
() 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 underlying hardware page size.
SEE ALSO
pagesize(1)
,
sbrk(2)
,
sysconf(3)
HISTORY
The
getpagesize
function call appeared in
4.2BSD
.
June 4, 1993
NetBSD 5.99