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1.\" $NetBSD: mprotect.2,v 1.6 1995/10/12 15:41:08 jtc Exp $
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34.\" @(#)mprotect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
35.\"
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/mman.h>
44.Ft int
45.Fo mprotect
46.Fa "void *addr"
47.Fa "size_t len"
48.Fa "int prot"
49.Fc
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Fn mprotect
53system call
54changes the specified pages to have protection
55.Fa prot .
56Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis;
57the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.
58.Sh RETURN VALUES
59Upon successful completion,
60a value of 0 is returned.
61Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
62.Va errno
63is set to indicate the error.
64.Sh ERRORS
65.Fn mprotect
66will fail if:
67.Bl -tag -width Er
68.\" ===========
69.It Bq Er EACCES
70The requested protection conflicts with
71the access permissions of the process
72on the specified address range.
73.\" ===========
74.\" .It Bq Er EAGAIN
75.\" Insufficient memory resources exist to allow locking a private page
76.\" under PROT_WRITE.
77.\" ===========
78.It Bq Er EINVAL
79.Fa addr
80is not a multiple of the page size.
81.\" ===========
82.\" .It Bq Er ENOMEM
83.\" The specified address range is outside of the address range
84.\" of the process or includes an unmapped page.
85.\" ===========
86.It Bq Er ENOTSUP
87The combination of accesses requested in
88.Fa prot
89is not supported.
90.El
91.Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS
92.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
93.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
94.Pp
95The include file
96.In sys/types.h
97is necessary.
98.Pp
99.Ft int
100.br
101.Fo mprotect
102.Fa "caddr_t addr"
103.Fa "size_t len"
104.Fa "int prot"
105.Fc ;
106.Pp
107The type of
108.Fa addr
109has changed.
110.Sh SEE ALSO
111.Xr madvise 2 ,
112.Xr mincore 2 ,
113.Xr msync 2 ,
114.Xr munmap 2 ,
115.Xr compat 5
116.Sh HISTORY
117The
118.Fn mprotect
119function first appeared in 4.4BSD.