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