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mprotect¤

Description¤

Calls the mprotect syscall and prints its result value.

Note that the mprotect syscall may fail for various reasons (see man mprotect) and a non-zero error return value can be decoded with the errno <value> command.

Examples: mprotect $rsp 4096 PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC mprotect $rsp 4096 rwx mprotect $rsp 4096 7 mprotect some_symbol 0x1000 PROT_NONE

Usage:¤

usage: mprotect [-h] addr length prot

Positional Arguments¤

Positional Argument Help
addr Page-aligned address to all mprotect on.
length Count of bytes to call mprotect on. Needs to be multiple of page size.
prot Prot string as in mprotect(2). Eg. "PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC", "rx", or "5"

Optional Arguments¤

Short Long Default Help
-h --help show this help message and exit