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MINCORE(2) BSD System Calls Manual MINCORE(2) NAME mincore -- determine residency of memory pages SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/mman.h> int mincore(caddr_t addr, size_t len, char *vec); DESCRIPTION The mincore() system call allows a process to obtain information about whether pages are core resident. Here the current core residency of the pages is returned in the character array vec, with a value of 1 meaning that the page is in-core. RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. SEE ALSO madvise(2), minherit(2), mlock(2), mprotect(2), msync(2), munmap(2) HISTORY The mincore() function first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD June 9, 1993 BSD |