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25.Dd July 27, 1998
26.Dt I386_GET_IOPERM 2
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm i386_get_ioperm ,
30.Nm i386_set_ioperm
31.Nd manage per-process access to the i386 I/O port space
32.Sh LIBRARY
33.Lb libc
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In machine/sysarch.h
36.Ft int
37.Fn i386_get_ioperm "unsigned int start" "unsigned int *length" "int *enable"
38.Ft int
39.Fn i386_set_ioperm "unsigned int start" "unsigned int length" "int enable"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn i386_get_ioperm
43system call
44will return the permission for the process' I/O port space in the
45.Fa *enable
46argument.
47The port range starts at
48.Fa start
49and the number of contiguous entries will be returned in
50.Fa *length .
51.Pp
52The
53.Fn i386_set_ioperm
54system call
55will set access to a range of I/O ports described by the
56.Fa start
57and
58.Fa length
59arguments to the state specified by the
60.Fa enable
61argument.
62.Sh RETURN VALUES
63.Rv -std
64.Sh ERRORS
65The
66.Fn i386_get_ioperm
67and
68.Fn i386_set_ioperm
69system calls
70will fail if:
71.Bl -tag -width Er
72.It Bq Er EINVAL
73An invalid range was specified by the
74.Fa start
75or
76.Fa length
77arguments.
78.It Bq Er EPERM
79The caller of i386_set_ioperm was not the superuser.
80.El
81.Sh SEE ALSO
82.Xr io 4
83.Sh AUTHORS
84This man page was written by
85.An Jonathan Lemon .
86