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> I'm not sure there have even been any mainstream OSes that used [x86 segmentation] for process isolation. AFAIU OpenBSD uses it for W^X (aka DEP) on i386. Li
by wahern 7y ago
> I'm not sure there have even been any mainstream OSes that used [x86 segmentation] for process isolation.
AFAIU OpenBSD uses it for W^X (aka DEP) on i386. Linux may, too.