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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-12-30 22:41:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-12-31 09:18:04 +0100 |
| commit | a6f73f75e62e1ad3c71e2393efe10406a037c24b (patch) | |
| tree | f44802e9352ef47b385e7760636c13422330bbe4 | |
| parent | 00d3eabb53c5cf37c8e240441cc74dbbaf3b1618 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a6f73f75e62e1ad3c71e2393efe10406a037c24b.tar.gz | |
get_phys_pages.3: glibc gets the info from sysinfo(2) since 2.23
See glibc's commit: 0ce657c576bf1b24
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0ce657c576bf1b24
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/get_phys_pages.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/get_phys_pages.3 b/man3/get_phys_pages.3 index 35f83fedb2..a8a1ce3f46 100644 --- a/man3/get_phys_pages.3 +++ b/man3/get_phys_pages.3 @@ -55,15 +55,20 @@ The system could not provide the required information (possibly because the .I /proc filesystem was not mounted). -.SH CONFORMING TO -These functions are GNU extensions. -.SH NOTES -These functions obtain the required information by scanning the +.SH VERSIONS +Before glibc 2.23, +these functions obtained the required information by scanning the .I MemTotal and .I MemFree fields of .IR /proc/meminfo . +.SH CONFORMING TO +These functions are GNU extensions. +.SH NOTES +Since glibc 2.23, +these functions obtain the required information by calling +.BR sysinfo (2). .PP The following .BR sysconf (3) |