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I appreciate that there is so much operating system innovation coming from the *BSD's like the Hammer file systems in DragonFly and security concepts like the new pledge() system call from OpenBSD which informs the operating system that an executing program pledges to never use certain system calls. (i.e. if you say you'll never do something, the operating system will have the privilege of killing your application should there be some kind of buffer overflow/compromise.)

Re: pledge() in OpenBSD:

In FreeBSD for quite some time there is Capsicum and CloudABI has been included in FreeBSD 11. Definitely worth a look, especially the second which is also present in DragonFly.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Capsicum

https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/

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