Return the correct value for sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 15 14:51, Erik Bray wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Currently sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) returns the value of
> wincap.allocation_granularity()--a change I *think* had to have been
> made by mistake in
> https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;f=winsup/cygwin/sysconf.cc;h=177dc6c7f6d0608ef6540fd997d9b444e324cae2
> 
> There's no obvious reason, anyways, that this value should be returned
> and not the actual page size.

That's no accident, but a deliberate decision.  Originally we used the
page size at this point, but that's long ago.  This has been discussed
on the cygwin-developers mailing list years ago.  The problem is the
POSIX assumption that the allocation granularity equals the page size.
The only working solution which does not break assumptions is to return
the allocation granularity as page size.


Corinna

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