https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX: >W^X ("Write XOR Execute"; spoken as W xor X) is a security feature in operating syste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX: >W^X ("Write XOR Execute"; spoken as W xor X) is a security feature in operating systems and virtual machines. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process's or kernel's address space may be either writable or executable, but not both. "privsep" stands for "privilege separation", which is fairly self-explanatory. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_separation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_separation.