From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: lang/polyml: fix (stupid because needless) W^X violation
To: Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:25:55 -0600

kern.wxabort was added as a mechanism to assist developers at figuring
why programs do W|X allocations, deep inside.

This creates nice coredumps, sometimes stored to avoid privsep/chroot
issues using kern.nosuidcoredump=3

Then, the developer can try to fix the program, or give up and use USE_WXNEEDED

I'm not sure we can ever consider this a normal-but-optional runtime
behaviour. By it's nature, it is silently unrecoverable.  I'm pretty
certain that making it a default is never going to be acceptable.