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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by 10000truths on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:46PM (#32696559)
> Very few programs make syscalls directly (except go programs i guess? lol) on Linux

You’re forgetting statically compiled binaries, which are very important for ease of deployment and distro-agnostic execution.

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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by staticassertion on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:38PM (#32728417)
Statically compiled binaries almost always still use a libc, either by dynamically linking it or by statically linking it.
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