pkeys.7: Note that SIGSEGV results if pkey restrictions are violated

And point to sigaction(2) for further details.

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but always act to further restrict these traditional permission
mechanisms.
If a process performs an access that violates pkey
restrictions, it receives a
.BR SIGSEGV
signal.
See
.BR sigaction (2)
for details of the information available with that signal.
To use the pkeys feature, the processor must support it, and the kernel
must contain support for the feature on a given processor.
As of early 2016 only future Intel x86 processors are supported,