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Re:OpenBSD: Immutable Userland Mappings by pjmlp on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:25PM (#33598547)
A bare metal language runtime is a kernel....

I am fully aware UNIX clones will never use anything beyond C for most part, although there are some famous UNIXes like Apollo that did indeed trail another path.

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Re:OpenBSD: Immutable Userland Mappings by AaronFriel on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:34PM (#33603553)
The context of this thread is adding syscall to the kernel to allow C userland programs to be safer.

Even if the kernel were written in Java - which is, again, absurd to ask of the OpenBSD developers - it would still be a viable syscall to add for user mode programs written in memory unsafe languages.

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Re:OpenBSD: Immutable Userland Mappings by pjmlp on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @01:34AM (#33605984)
Only way to make C "safer", is to follow Solaris footsteps, hardware memory tagging.
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