I remember the time when modifying running programs were a big rage. Now seems many OSs are going in the opposite direction with OpenBSD leading the race.
Is OpenBSD moving away from program loading and dynamic linking? Even many embedded systems allow software updates these days…
What I am referring to is not dynamic linking, but something else. My memory of that is rather faded and I only remember seeing in in various docs something like 40 years ago
Dynamic linking is by far the dominant use of self-modifying code these days, followed shortly by JIT code generation.
What is OpenBSD pivoting towards? Immutable images?
He's probably referring to the W^X (write xor execute) feature of OpenBSD