NAME
mprotect - control the protection of pages
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/mman.h>
int
mprotect(const void *addr, size_t len, int prot);
DESCRIPTION
The mprotect() system call changes the specified pages to have protection
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 struct vm_map_entry.
Currently these protection bits are known, which can be combined, OR’d
together:
PROT_NONE No permissions at all.
PROT_READ The pages can be read.
PROT_WRITE The pages can be written.
PROT_EXEC The pages can be executed.
RETURN VALUES
The mprotect() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The mprotect() system call will fail if:
[EINVAL] The virtual address range specified by the addr and
len arguments is not valid.
[EACCES] The calling process was not allowed to change the
protection to the value specified by the prot
argument.
SEE ALSO
madvise(2), mincore(2), msync(2), munmap(2)
HISTORY
The mprotect() system call first appeared in 4.4BSD.