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.\" @(#)mincore.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 9, 1993
.Dt MINCORE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mincore
.Nd get advice about use of memory
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/mman.h
.Ft int
.Fn mincore "const void *addr" "size_t len" "char *vec"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn 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
.Fa vec ,
with a value of 1 meaning
that the page is in-core.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std mincore
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The virtial address range specified by the
.Fa addr
and
.Fa len
arguments is not valid.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
The
.Fa vec
argument points to an illegal address.
.El
.Sh BUGS
This man page is incorrect.
The vector description is wrong.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr madvise 2 ,
.Xr mprotect 2 ,
.Xr msync 2 ,
.Xr munmap 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn mincore
function first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
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