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Correct me if I am wrong but OpenBSD introduced the constraint that syscalls must come from a specific section of memory, that assigned to their libc. In a cas
by sharikous 5y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but OpenBSD introduced the constraint that syscalls must come from a specific section of memory, that assigned to their libc.
In a case like that static linking is not only unstable, as in Windows or macOS, but also impossible.
And since that has security benefits we will probably see it being migrated to other platforms in the near future.