Theo de Raadt wrote in <[email protected]>:
 |The following change only permits system calls from address-ranges
 |in the process which system calls are expected from.
  ...
 |Unfortunately our current go build model hasn't followed solaris/macos
 |approach yet of calling libc stubs, and uses the inappropriate "embed
 |system calls directly" method, so for now we'll need to authorize the main
 |program text as well.  A comment in exec_elf.c explains this.
 |
 |If go is adapted to call library-based system call stubs on OpenBSD as

May i ask -- does this really mean that the (theoretic)
possibility of writing a small assembler program which performs
direct system calls will no longer be possible?
Whereas i see "static binary: main program does system calls",
a future change could very well restrict the allowed address range
some more even then?

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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