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+.\" $NetBSD: mprotect.2,v 1.29 2019/09/09 07:46:49 wiz Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)mprotect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd September 8, 2019
+.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 "void *addr" "size_t len" "int prot"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+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.
+.Pp
+The protections (region accessibility) are specified in the
+.Fa prot
+argument by
+.Tn OR Ns 'ing
+the following values:
+.Bl -tag -width "Dv MAP_WRITE" -offset indent
+.It Dv PROT_EXEC
+Pages may be executed.
+.It Dv PROT_READ
+Pages may be read.
+.It Dv PROT_WRITE
+Pages may be written.
+.It Dv PROT_NONE
+Placeholder when requesting no access permission.
+.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion,
+a value of 0 is returned.
+Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+A memory protection violation occurred.
+.Pp
+The
+.Dv PROT_EXEC
+flag was attempted on pages which belong to a file system mounted with the
+.Dv NOEXEC
+flag.
+.Pp
+The new protection is less restrictive than the protection originally
+set with
+.Xr mmap 2 .
+.Pp
+PaX mprotect restrictions prohibit the requested protection.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+An invalid memory range, or invalid parameters were provided.
+.It Bq Er ENOMEM
+A resource shortage occurred while internally calling
+.Xr uvm_map_protect 9 .
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr madvise 2 ,
+.Xr mincore 2 ,
+.Xr msync 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+function first appeared in SunOS 4.0 and subsequently
+.Bx 4.4 .