1.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mincore.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/09/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MINCORE 2 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mincore 13.Nd get advise about use of memory 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Fn mincore "caddr_t addr" "int len" "char *vec" 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17The 18.Fn mincore 19system call 20allows a process to obtain information about whether pages are 21core resident. 22Here the current core residency of the pages is returned 23in the character array 24.Fa vec , 25with a value of 1 meaning 26that the page is in-core. 27.Sh SEE ALSO 28.Xr msync 2 , 29.Xr munmap 2 , 30.Xr mprotect 2 , 31.Xr madvise 2 , 32.Sh HISTORY 33The 34.Fn mincore 35function first appeared in 4.4BSD. 36