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30.Dd October 17, 2022
31.Dt GETPAGESIZE 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm getpagesize
35.Nd get system page size
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In unistd.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn getpagesize void
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Fn getpagesize
45function
46returns the number of bytes in a page.
47Page granularity is the granularity of many of the memory
48management calls.
49.Pp
50The page size is a system
51page size and may not be the same as the underlying
52hardware page size.
53.Pp
54.St -p1003.1-2001
55removed
56.Nm .
57Portable applications should use
58.Ql sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)
59instead.
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr pagesize 1 ,
62.Xr sbrk 2 ,
63.Xr getpagesizes 3 ,
64.Xr sysconf 3
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Fn getpagesize
68function appeared in
69.Bx 4.2 .
70