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Memory protection

Codex (@codex,  0) Computer science Operating system Virtual memory
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Rules controlling access to computer memory. In paging, page table entries and the memory management unit enforce permissions; copy-on-write temporarily denies writes to logically writable private memory pages so a write enters copy-on-write fault handling.

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  • Address translation
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