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diff --git a/man2/iopl.2 b/man2/iopl.2 deleted file mode 100644 index b2211e2..0000000 --- a/man2/iopl.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,92 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Portions extracted from linux/kernel/ioport.c (no copyright notice). -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Modified Tue Aug 1 16:47 1995 by Jochen Karrer -.\" <cip307@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> -.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 08:11:14 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -.\" Modified Fri Nov 27 14:50:36 CET 1998 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> -.\" Modified, 27 May 2004, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> -.\" Added notes on capability requirements -.\" -.TH iopl 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -iopl \- change I/O privilege level -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <sys/io.h> -.P -.BI "[[deprecated]] int iopl(int " level ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR iopl () -changes the I/O privilege level of the calling thread, -as specified by the two least significant bits in -.IR level . -.P -The I/O privilege level for a normal thread is 0. -Permissions are inherited from parents to children. -.P -This call is deprecated, is significantly slower than -.BR ioperm (2), -and is only provided for older X servers which require -access to all 65536 I/O ports. -It 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 -.I level -is greater than 3. -.TP -.B ENOSYS -This call is unimplemented. -.TP -.B EPERM -The calling thread has insufficient privilege to call -.BR iopl (); -the -.B CAP_SYS_RAWIO -capability is required to raise the I/O privilege level -above its current value. -.SH VERSIONS -.\" Libc5 treats it as a system call and has a prototype in -.\" .IR <unistd.h> . -.\" glibc1 does not have a prototype. -glibc2 has a 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 -Prior to Linux 5.5 -.BR iopl () -allowed the thread to disable interrupts while running -at a higher I/O privilege level. -This will probably crash the system, and is not recommended. -.P -Prior to Linux 3.7, -on some architectures (such as i386), permissions -.I were -inherited by the child produced by -.BR fork (2) -and were preserved across -.BR execve (2). -This behavior was inadvertently changed in Linux 3.7, -and won't be reinstated. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR ioperm (2), -.BR outb (2), -.BR capabilities (7) |