getpagesize - get system page size


SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       size_t getpagesize(void);


DESCRIPTION

       Return  the  number  of bytes in a page.  This is the sys­
       tem's page size, which is not necessarily the same as  the
       hardware page size.


NOTES

       getpagesize  is  implemented  as a library function in DLL
       4.4.1.  Depending on what is defined when the  library  is
       compiled, this function returns EXEC_PAGESIZE (set to 4096
       in Linux 0.99.11), NBPG (set to 4096 in Linux 0.99.11), or
       NBPC   (not   defined   in  Linux  0.99.11  or  DLL  4.4.1
       libraries).


BUGS

       Depending  on  architecture  and  library  version,   this
       library  call may do a system call or not. It may return a
       value different from that of the system call. For example,
       on  a  sun4 with libc5 this routine returns EXEC_PAGESIZE,
       which is 8192, and not PAGE_SIZE, which is  4096,  or  the
       result of the system call, which also is 4096.


CONFORMING TO

       SVr4, 4.4BSD (this call first appeared in 4.2BSD).


SEE ALSO

       sbrk(2)


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