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GETPAGESIZE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GETPAGESIZE(2)
getpagesize - get memory page size
#include <unistd.h>
int getpagesize(void);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
getpagesize(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
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();
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.
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.
mmap(2), sysconf(3)
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Linux 2007-07-26 GETPAGESIZE(2)