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GETPAGESIZE(3)             Library Functions Manual             GETPAGESIZE(3)

NAME
     getpagesize - get system page size

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     getpagesize(void);

DESCRIPTION
     This interface is obsoleted by sysconf(3).

     getpagesize() returns the number of bytes in a page.  Page granularity is
     the granularity of many of the memory management calls.

     The page size is a system page size and may not be the same as the
     underlying hardware page size.

SEE ALSO
     pagesize(1), sbrk(2), sysconf(3)

HISTORY
     The getpagesize function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

NetBSD 11.99                     June 4, 1993                     NetBSD 11.99