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.\"	@(#)mprotect.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/sys/mprotect.2 165903 2007-01-09 00:28:16Z imp $
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.Dd June 9, 1993
.Dt MPROTECT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mprotect
.Nd control the protection of pages
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/mman.h
.Ft int
.Fn mprotect "const void *addr" "size_t len" "int prot"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn mprotect
system call
changes the specified pages to have protection
.Fa prot .
Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis;
the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.
A region is the virtual address space defined by the start
and end addresses of a
.Vt "struct vm_map_entry" .
.Pp
Currently these protection bits are known,
which can be combined, OR'd together:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv PROT_WRITE" -compact
.It Dv PROT_NONE
No permissions at all.
.It Dv PROT_READ
The pages can be read.
.It Dv PROT_WRITE
The pages can be written.
.It Dv PROT_EXEC
The pages can be executed.
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std mprotect
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn mprotect
system call will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The virtual address range specified by the
.Fa addr
and
.Fa len
arguments is not valid.
.It Bq Er EACCES
The calling process was not allowed to change
the protection to the value specified by
the
.Fa prot
argument.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr madvise 2 ,
.Xr mincore 2 ,
.Xr msync 2 ,
.Xr munmap 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn mprotect
system call first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .