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.TH ioperm 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8"
.SH NAME
ioperm \- set port input/output permissions
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/io.h>
.P
.BI "int ioperm(unsigned long " from ", unsigned long " num ", int " turn_on );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR ioperm ()
sets the port access permission bits for the calling thread for
.I num
bits starting from port address
.IR from .
If
.I turn_on
is nonzero, then permission for the specified bits is enabled;
otherwise it is disabled.
If
.I turn_on
is nonzero, the calling thread must be privileged
.RB ( CAP_SYS_RAWIO ).
.P
Before Linux 2.6.8,
only the first 0x3ff I/O ports could be specified in this manner.
For more ports, the
.BR iopl (2)
system call had to be used (with a
.I level
argument of 3).
Since Linux 2.6.8, 65,536 I/O ports can be specified.
.P
Permissions are inherited by the child created by
.BR fork (2)
(but see NOTES).
Permissions are preserved across
.BR execve (2);
this is useful for giving port access permissions to unprivileged
programs.
.P
This call is mostly for the i386 architecture.
On many other architectures it does not exist or will always
return an error.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EINVAL
Invalid values for
.I from
or
.IR num .
.TP
.B EIO
(on PowerPC) This call is not supported.
.TP
.B ENOMEM
.\" Could not allocate I/O bitmap.
Out of memory.
.TP
.B EPERM
The calling thread has insufficient privilege.
.SH VERSIONS
glibc has an
.BR ioperm ()
prototype both in
.I <sys/io.h>
and in
.IR <sys/perm.h> .
Avoid the latter, it is available on i386 only.
.SH STANDARDS
Linux.
.SH HISTORY
Before Linux 2.4,
permissions were not inherited by a child created by
.BR fork (2).
.SH NOTES
The
.I /proc/ioports
file shows the I/O ports that are currently allocated on the system.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR iopl (2),
.BR outb (2),
.BR capabilities (7)