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MINCORE(2)                NetBSD System Calls Manual                MINCORE(2)


NAME

     mincore -- determine residency of memory pages


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/mman.h>

     int
     mincore(void *addr, size_t len, char *vec);


DESCRIPTION

     The mincore() system call tells whether the pages covering len bytes of
     data starting at addr are core resident in the process.  The status of
     the memory range is returned in the character-per-page array vec.  If the
     page is resident, the least significant bit of the corresponding charac-
     ter in vec will be set.  Other bits are reserved for additional informa-
     tion which future implementations may return.

     Note that the status of each page may change between the call to
     mincore() and the return of the page status information.  In order to
     guarantee that pages will remain in core, the address range must be
     locked with mlock(2).


RETURN VALUES

     The mincore() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.


ERRORS

     The mincore() call will fail if:

     [EFAULT]           vec points to an illegal address.

     [EINVAL]           addr is not a multiple of the system page size.

     [EINVAL]           len is equal to 0.

     [ENOMEM]           The address range specified is invalid for the calling
                        process, or one or more of the pages specified in the
                        range are not mapped.


SEE ALSO

     madvise(2), mlock(2), mprotect(2), msync(2), munmap(2), sysconf(3)


HISTORY

     The mincore() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

NetBSD 10.99                     June 6, 1999                     NetBSD 10.99