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+.\" $NetBSD: mincore.2,v 1.6 1995/06/24 10:47:05 cgd Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)mincore.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 9, 1993
+.Dt MINCORE 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mincore
+.Nd determine residency of memory pages
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn mincore "caddr_t addr" "int 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 SEE ALSO
+.Xr madvise 2 ,
+.Xr mlock 2 ,
+.Xr mprotect 2 ,
+.Xr msync 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn mincore
+function first appeared in 4.4BSD.