MPROTECT(2)

NAME
mprotect - control the protection of pages

SYNOPSIS
mprotect(addr, len, prot)
caddr_t addr;
int len, prot;

DESCRIPTION

The mprotect system call changes the specified pages to have protection prot. Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis; the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.

SEE ALSO
msync.2, munmap.2, mprotect.2, madvise.2, mincore.2