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wxallowed flag is required for some ports that write to pages that are also executable.

OpenBSD prohibits this except when code is run from a partition that permits it by means of a mount flag. Otherwise you get a core dump.

And all the partitions are largely an availability feature: if errant code fills up /var/log then /home is still usable.



Oh right. I've just never encountered such issues in the years I've been using FreeBSD, with /usr/local being one big partition.

I'm aware of that if no partitions are filled it causes an domino effect if not on its own partition. I have ZFS quotas configured so surely that mitigates the issue?

Handy to know though.


You are replying to a comment about OPEN BSD, not FreeBSD.


Yeah I know. Tyvm


Then I don't see your point here at all.

"On platform X, you must do A."

"Huh, weird, that's never affected me using (thing that only runs on platform B)."




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