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Virtual memory isn't just for giving each process enough space. It's for security reasons, too.
by duaneb 11y ago
Virtual memory isn't just for giving each process enough space. It's for security reasons, too.
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- oso2k 11y agoCould you explain how virtual memory makes a process more secure? My intuition is that it would be another source of contention to manage (like CPU, RAM, IO, etc). Maybe you're considering non-sequential address space an improvement for security. That I could see. ASLR would be another, which, you can see the effect of by multiple runs of t/_end.exe in rt0.