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		yoklov on May 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD Extremely clever. Wouldn't this still violate W^X though? I would have thought the OS would see through a trick like this.

nanofortnight on May 29, 2016 [–]

It doesn't violate W^X, because the same virtual memory address isn't writable and executable at the same time.

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