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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-02-11 20:18:10 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-02-11 20:18:10 +0000 |
commit | b801c259323ff6c48b9f72e04599a2fa6ee12bb7 (patch) | |
tree | 9ce43d923cf75a16d79b5cd8923aa29d20746d79 /lib | |
parent | 41f61e86935c2a727422df5a4abfd76a818783f4 (diff) |
Some cleanup.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libarch/i386/i386_get_ioperm.2 | 36 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libarch/i386/i386_get_ioperm.2 b/lib/libarch/i386/i386_get_ioperm.2 index 164cd09e214..3fffb1b2616 100644 --- a/lib/libarch/i386/i386_get_ioperm.2 +++ b/lib/libarch/i386/i386_get_ioperm.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: i386_get_ioperm.2,v 1.9 2000/10/18 05:12:06 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: i386_get_ioperm.2,v 1.10 2001/02/11 20:18:09 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: i386_get_ioperm.2,v 1.3 1996/02/27 22:57:17 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -52,16 +52,14 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Fn i386_get_ioperm copies the current I/O permission bitmap into the memory referenced by -.Ar iomap . +.Fa iomap . .Pp .Fn i386_set_ioperm sets the I/O permission bitmap from the data pointed to by -.Ar iomap . +.Fa iomap . This call is restricted to the superuser. .Pp -The permission bitmap contains -1024 -bits in 32 longwords. +The permission bitmap contains 1024 bits in 32 longwords. If bit .Va n is clear in the bitmap, then access is granted to I/O port @@ -70,16 +68,16 @@ If bit .Va n is set in the bitmap, then an attempt to access I/O port .Va n -results in delivery of a SIGBUS signal unless the process's I/O -permission level would grant I/O access. +results in delivery of a +.Dv SIGBUS +signal unless the process's I/O permission level would grant I/O access. .Sh RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, .Fn i386_get_ioperm and .Fn i386_set_ioperm return 0. -Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and the global -variable +Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and the global variable .Va errno is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS @@ -89,20 +87,22 @@ and will fail if: .Bl -tag -width [EINVAL] .It Bq Er EFAULT -.Ar Iomap +.Fa iomap points outside the process's allocated address space. .It Bq Er EPERM The caller was not the superuser. .El -.Sh BUGS -The bitmap should really cover 65536 bits, but that's just too big for -allocation in a kernel structure. -If you need access to ports beyond 1024, use -.Xr i386_iopl 2 . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr i386_iopl 2 -.Sh REFERENCES -i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel +.Rs +.%A Intel +.%T i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual +.Re .Sh WARNING You can really hose your machine if you enable user-level I/O and write to hardware ports without care. +.Sh BUGS +The bitmap should really cover 65536 bits, but that's just too big for +allocation in a kernel structure. +If you need access to ports beyond 1024, use +.Xr i386_iopl 2 . |