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This is wrong, on Windows there are system calls to access memory of other process and on Linux you can do it using debugging. Also on Windows there is a tradition to inject libraries into other processes, create threads in processes etc.

>>codedo+(OP)
On Linux, ptrace permissions can be restricted [0] and some distributions do this by default.

Whether this provides any meaningful security is questionable unless you pair it with filesystem isolation to prevent malicious programs from modifying config files / bashrc / etc. Meanwhile it does make legit uses of ptrace more annoying.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Yama.txt