OpenBSD's kernel gets W^X treatment
Does anyone have links that would explain this concept in greater detail? I get the meaning of W^X and I even understand the danger of executable memory, and why one wouldn't want it to be write-able (or at least not write-able by untrusted writers), but, beyond that I don't really understand the broader implications.<p>Also, it sounds like it would be a massive undertaking, even for a small(ish) kernel like OpenBSD, if the kernel wasn't always written with this goal in mind. Is that the case? (I don't see a patch referenced, so I'm not able to judge for myself.)