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IOPL(2)			   Linux Programmer's Manual		       IOPL(2)

NAME
       iopl - change I/O privilege level

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/io.h>

       int iopl(int level);

DESCRIPTION
       iopl() changes the I/O privilege level of the current process, as spec‐
       ified in level.

       This call is necessary to allow 8514-compatible X servers to run	 under
       Linux.	Since  these  X servers require access to all 65536 I/O ports,
       the ioperm() call is not sufficient.

       In addition to granting unrestricted I/O	 port  access,	running	 at  a
       higher  I/O  privilege  level also allows the process to disable inter‐
       rupts.  This will probably crash the system, and is not recommended.

       Permissions are inherited by fork() and exec().

       The I/O privilege level for a normal process is 0.

       This call is mostly for the i386 architecture.  On many other architec‐
       tures 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 level is greater than 3.

       ENOSYS This call is unimplemented.

       EPERM  The calling process has insufficient privilege to	 call  iopl();
	      the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability is required.

CONFORMING TO
       iopl()  is  Linux specific and should not be used in processes 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.

SEE ALSO
       ioperm(2), capabilities(7)

Linux 2.6.6			  2004-05-27			       IOPL(2)
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