#include <unistd.h> /* for libc5 */
#include <sys/io.h> /* for glibc */
int ioperm(unsigned long from , unsigned long num , int turn_on );
DESCRIPTION
Ioperm sets the port access permission bits for the process for
num bytes starting from port address from to the value
turn_on. The use of ioperm requires root privileges.
Only the first 0x3ff I/O ports can be specified in this manner. For more
ports, the
iopl function must be used.
Permissions are not inherited on fork, but on exec they are. This is
useful for giving port access permissions to non-privileged tasks.
This call is mostly for the i386 architecture.
On many other architectures it does not exist or will always
return an error.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EINVAL
Invalid values for
from or
num .
EPERM
Caller does not have the CAP_SYS_RAWIO privileges.
EIO
(on ppc) This call is not supported.
CONFORMING TO
ioperm is Linux specific and should not be used in programs
intended to be portable.
NOTES
Libc5 treats it as a system call and has a prototype in
<unistd.h> . Glibc1 does not have a prototype. Glibc2 has a prototype both in
<sys/io.h> and in
<sys/perm.h> . Avoid the latter, it is available on i386 only.
