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NAME
mincore - determine residency of memory pages
CONTENTS
Library Synopsis Description Return Values Errors See Also History
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
int mincore "const void *addr" "size_t len" "char *vec"
DESCRIPTION
The mincore system call determines whether each of the pages in the region beginning at addr and continuing for len bytes is resident. The status is returned in the vec array, one character per page. Each character is either 0 if the page is not resident, or a combination of the following flags (defined in
MINCORE_INCORE Page is in core (resident). MINCORE_REFERENCED Page has been referenced by us. MINCORE_MODIFIED Page has been modified by us. MINCORE_REFERENCED_OTHER Page has been referenced. MINCORE_MODIFIED_OTHER Page has been modified.
The information returned by mincore may be out of date by the time the system call returns. The only way to ensure that a page is resident is to lock it into memory with the mlock (2) system call.
RETURN VALUES
ERRORS
The mincore system call will fail if:
[EINVAL ] The virtual address range specified by the addr and len arguments is not valid. [EFAULT ] The vec argument points to an illegal address.
SEE ALSO
madvise (2),mlock (2),mprotect (2),msync (2),munmap (2),getpagesize (3)
HISTORY
