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37 .Nd determine residency of memory pages
43 .Fn mincore "void *addr" "size_t len" "char *vec"
48 allows a process to obtain information about whether pages are
50 The status of the memory range is returned in the character-per-page array
52 If the page is resident, the least significant bit of the corresponding
56 Other bits are reserved for additional information
57 which future implementations may return.
59 Note that the status of each page may change between the call to
61 and the return of the page status information.
63 that pages will remain in core, the address range must be locked with
67 returns 0 on success, or \-1 on failure and sets the variable
69 to indicate the error.
77 points to an illegal address.
80 is not a multiple of the system page size.
85 The address range specified is invalid for the calling process,
86 or one or more of the pages specified in the range are not mapped.
98 function first appeared in