Memory protection, W^X, guard pages, etc.

From: Adam Mitchell (adam_at_opsoncall.com)
Date: 08/25/04


Date: 24 Aug 2004 19:17:43 -0700

Is OpenBSD the only one of the BSD projects with these features?:

Memory protection purify
W^X
.rodata segment
Guard pages
Randomized malloc()
Randomized mmap()
atexit() and stdio protection
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