Article 66NZK [$] mimmutable() for OpenBSD

[$] mimmutable() for OpenBSD

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Virtual-memory systems provide a great deal of flexibility in how memorycan be mapped and protected. Unfortunately, memory-management flexibilitycan also be useful to attackers bent on compromising a system. In theOpenBSD world, a new system call is being added to reduce this flexibility;it is, though, a system call that almost no code is expected to use.
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