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Services are a kind of library, only that the calls happen across protection boundaries through portals. They can be used from applications or other services, and provide protection for both callers and callees from each other. They are the canonical way to provide “privileged” functionality on the Mill. It is not really privileged though. Services only reside in different turfs with different permissions than the code calling them. There is nothing fundamentally different between different turfs, only the set of permissions to different memory regions.