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37.Dd October 14, 1995
38.Dt I386_IOPL 2 i386
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm i386_iopl
42.Nd change the i386 I/O privilege level
43.Sh LIBRARY
44.Lb libi386
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/types.h\*[Gt]
47.Fd #include \*[Lt]machine/sysarch.h\*[Gt]
48.Ft int
49.Fn i386_iopl "int iopl"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51.Fn i386_iopl
52sets the i386 I/O privilege level to the value specified by
53.Ar iopl .
54This call is restricted to the super-user.
55.Sh RETURN VALUES
56Upon successful completion,
57.Fn i386_iopl
58returns 0.
59Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global
60variable
61.Va errno
62is set to indicate the error.
63.Sh ERRORS
64.Fn i386_iopl
65will fail if:
66.Bl -tag -width [EINVAL]
67.It Bq Er EPERM
68The caller was not the super-user, or the operation was not permitted at the
69current security level.
70.El
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr i386_get_ioperm 2 ,
73.Xr i386_set_ioperm 2
74.Sh REFERENCES
75i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel
76.Sh WARNING
77You can really hose your machine if you enable user-level I/O and
78write to hardware ports without care.
79