Linux Standard Base Core Specification for Itanium™ | ||
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iopl changes the I/O privilege level of the current process, as specified 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 interrupts. 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.
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