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34.\" @(#)mprotect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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36.Dd June 9, 1993
37.Dt MPROTECT 2
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm mprotect
41.Nd control the protection of pages
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
44.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
45.Ft int
46.Fn mprotect "caddr_t addr" "size_t len" "int prot"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn mprotect
50system call
51changes the specified pages to have protection
52.Fa prot .
53Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis;
54the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.
55.Sh RETURN VALUES
56Upon successful completion,
57a value of 0 is returned.
58Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
59.Va errno
60is set to indicate the error.
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr madvise 2 ,
63.Xr mincore 2 ,
64.Xr msync 2 ,
65.Xr munmap 2
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Fn mprotect
69function first appeared in 4.4BSD.