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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" are met:
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)mprotect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 3, 2016
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.Dt MPROTECT 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mprotect
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.Nd control the protection of pages
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/mman.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn mprotect "void *addr" "size_t len" "int prot"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn mprotect
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system call
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changes the specified pages to have protection
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.Fa prot .
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Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis;
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the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.
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A region is the virtual address space defined by the start
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and end addresses of a
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.Vt "struct vm_map_entry" .
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.Pp
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Currently these protection bits are known,
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which can be combined, OR'd together:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width ".Dv PROT_WRITE" -compact
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.It Dv PROT_NONE
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No permissions at all.
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.It Dv PROT_READ
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The pages can be read.
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.It Dv PROT_WRITE
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The pages can be written.
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.It Dv PROT_EXEC
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The pages can be executed.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std mprotect
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn mprotect
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system call will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The virtual address range specified by the
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.Fa addr
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and
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.Fa len
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arguments is not valid.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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The calling process was not allowed to change
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the protection to the value specified by
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the
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.Fa prot
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argument.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr madvise 2 ,
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.Xr mincore 2 ,
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.Xr msync 2 ,
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.Xr munmap 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn mprotect
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system call first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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