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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
.\" Modified, 27 May 2004, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\" Added notes on capability requirements
.\"
-.TH ioperm 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH ioperm 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
ioperm \- set port input/output permissions
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/io.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int ioperm(unsigned long " from ", unsigned long " num ", int " turn_on );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ If
.I turn_on
is nonzero, the calling thread must be privileged
.RB ( CAP_SYS_RAWIO ).
-.PP
+.P
Before Linux 2.6.8,
only the first 0x3ff I/O ports could be specified in this manner.
For more ports, the
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ 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.
-.PP
+.P
Permissions are inherited by the child created by
.BR fork (2)
(but see NOTES).
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Permissions are preserved across
.BR execve (2);
this is useful for giving port access permissions to unprivileged
programs.
-.PP
+.P
This call is mostly for the i386 architecture.
On many other architectures it does not exist or will always
return an error.