I386_IOPL(2) BSD/i386 System Calls Manual I386_IOPL(2)NAME
i386_iopl — change the i386 I/O privilege level
LIBRARY
i386 Architecture Library (libi386, -li386)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <machine/sysarch.h>
int
i386_iopl(int iopl);
DESCRIPTIONi386_iopl() sets the i386 I/O privilege level to the value specified by
iopl. This call is restricted to the super-user.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, i386_iopl() returns 0. Otherwise, a value of
-1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORSi386_iopl() will fail if:
[EPERM] The caller was not the super-user, or the operation was not
permitted at the current security level.
REFERENCES
i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel
WARNING
You can really hose your machine if you enable user-level I/O and write
to hardware ports without care.
BSD April 12, 2004 BSD