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+.\"	@(#)mprotect.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd June 9, 1993
+.Dt MPROTECT 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mprotect
+.Nd control the protection of pages
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/types.h
+.In sys/mman.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn mprotect "const void *addr" "size_t len" "int prot"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn mprotect
+system call
+changes the specified pages to have protection
+.Fa prot .
+Not all implementations will guarantee protection on a page basis;
+the granularity of protection changes may be as large as an entire region.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std mprotect
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn mprotect
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The virtual address range specified by the
+.Fa addr
+and
+.Fa len
+arguments is not valid.
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+The calling process was not allowed to change
+the protection to the value specified by
+the
+.Fa prot
+argument.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr madvise 2 ,
+.Xr mincore 2 ,
+.Xr msync 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn mprotect
+function first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .