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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man2/mincore.2 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/mincore.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/mincore.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..509b5237 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/mincore.2 @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: mincore.2,v 1.21 2022/07/26 00:25:45 uwe Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)mincore.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1999 +.Dt MINCORE 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mincore +.Nd determine residency of memory pages +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/mman.h +.Ft int +.Fn mincore "void *addr" "size_t len" "char *vec" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn mincore +system call tells whether the pages covering +.Fa len +bytes of data starting at +.Fa addr +are core resident in the process. +The status of the memory range is returned in the character-per-page array +.Fa vec . +If the page is resident, the least significant bit of the corresponding +character in +.Fa vec +will be set. +Other bits are reserved for additional information +which future implementations may return. +.Pp +Note that the status of each page may change between the call to +.Fn 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 +.Xr mlock 2 . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std mincore +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn mincore +call will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa vec +points to an illegal address. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +.Fa addr +is not a multiple of the system page size. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +.Fa len +is equal to 0. +.It Bq Er 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. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr madvise 2 , +.Xr mlock 2 , +.Xr mprotect 2 , +.Xr msync 2 , +.Xr munmap 2 , +.Xr sysconf 3 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn mincore +function first appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . |
