NAME

mprotect — control the protection of pages

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/mman.h>

int
mprotect(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.