> Totally awesome!
> 
> awesome(38099): mmap W^X violation
> 
> It happens once on startup.

No, that is incorrect.  It probably happens throughout the program's
runtime.  mmap/mprotect failures are rate limited and only printed
once per process.

> Grepping for the obvious stuff doesn't show me the issue, perhaps
> it's a library. There is no obvious ill effect from the mmap
> failure.

> As an aside, iridium runs into mmap W^X all the time, but seems to work fine?

iridium (like chrome) is multiple processes.  It prints it once per process.

> I thought people were getting broken tabs in chrome? There's no obvious ill
> effect in iridium from the mmap failure.

By default, W^X issues are only reported.  To see real action,

   # sysctl kern.wxabort=1

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