ioperm() / iopl() irritation

[Martin Wilck]

A short question that may be dumb:

In the docs on i386 IO protection that I know, it is said that
the processor ANDs the two protection mechanisms offered by the
IOPL flag and the io permission bitmap. That is, if IO permissions
are granted through iopl(), but ports are masked in the IO permission
bitmap, a segmentation fault should arise.

Such a situation should be generated by code like this:

  iopl(3);
  ioperm (0,0x1f,1); /* 0x20-0x3ff remain masked */
  c = inb (0x20);

However on my machine this codse is successful! How is that possible?
(If the iopl() statement is commented out, the code segfaults of course).

Martin

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