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Base: Document readonly atexit mitigation

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Kernel: Add a basic implementation of unveil()
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### Readonly atexit
[Readonly atexit](https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/atexit_hardening/) is a mitigation originating from OpenBSD.
Thanks to it, an attacker can no longer use the atexit region to escalate from arbitrary-write to code-execution.
It was first added in the following [commit](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/553361d83f7bc6499dc4821eff9b23a6549bd99c),
and was later [improved](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/fb003d71c2becf0b3ea148aad08642e5a7ea35bc)
to incur no additional cost during program initialization and finalization:
```
commit 553361d83f7bc6499dc4821eff9b23a6549bd99c
Author: Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
Date: Sat Jan 30 10:34:41 2021 +0100
LibC: Protect the atexit() handler list when not writing to it
Remap the list of atexit handlers as read-only while we're not actively
writing to it. This prevents an attacker from using a memory write
primitive to gain code execution via the atexit list.
This is based on a technique used in OpenBSD. :^)
```
### Syscall call-from verification
[Syscall call-from verification](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157488907117170&w=2) is