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GETPAGESIZE(2)                Linux Programmer's Manual                GETPAGESIZE(2)

NAME         top

       getpagesize - get memory page size

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <unistd.h>

       int getpagesize(void);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       getpagesize(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500

DESCRIPTION         top

       The function getpagesize() returns the number of bytes in a page, where a
       "page" is the thing used where it says in the description of mmap(2) that
       files are mapped in page-sized units.

       The size of the kind of pages that mmap(2) uses, is found using

           #include <unistd.h>
           long sz = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);

       (most systems allow the synonym _SC_PAGE_SIZE for _SC_PAGESIZE), or

           #include <unistd.h>
           int sz = getpagesize();

CONFORMING TO         top

       SVr4, 4.4BSD, SUSv2.  In SUSv2 the getpagesize() call is labeled LEGACY, and
       in POSIX.1-2001 it has been dropped; HP-UX does not have this call.  Portable
       applications should employ sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) instead of this call.

NOTES         top

       Whether getpagesize() is present as a Linux system call depends on the
       architecture.  If it is, it returns the kernel symbol PAGE_SIZE, whose value
       depends on the architecture and machine model.  Generally, one uses binaries
       that are dependent on the architecture but not on the machine model, in order
       to have a single binary distribution per architecture.  This means that a user
       program should not find PAGE_SIZE at compile time from a header file, but use
       an actual system call, at least for those architectures (like sun4) where this
       dependency exists.  Here libc4, libc5, glibc 2.0 fail because their
       getpagesize() returns a statically derived value, and does not use a system
       call.  Things are OK in glibc 2.1.

SEE ALSO         top

       mmap(2), sysconf(3)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
       at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux                                 2007-07-26                       GETPAGESIZE(2)