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.

The protections (region accessibility) are specified in the prot argument by OR'ing the following values:

PROT_EXEC

Pages may be executed.

PROT_READ

Pages may be read.

PROT_WRITE

Pages may be written.

PROT_NONE

No permissions.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

[EACCES]

A memory protection violation occurred, or the PROT_EXEC flag was attempted on pages which belong to a filesystem mounted with the NOEXEC flag.

[EINVAL]

An invalid memory range, or invalid parameters were provided.

[ENOMEM]

A resource shortage occurred while internally calling uvm_map_protect(9).

SEE ALSO

madvise(2), mincore(2), msync(2), munmap(2)

HISTORY

The mprotect() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.