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SOSP
1993
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Improving IPC by Kernel Design
Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...
Jochen Liedtke
HOTDEP
2008
107views Hardware» more  HOTDEP 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
USENIX
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox
TSE
1998
114views more  TSE 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
KLAIM: A Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility
—We investigate the issue of designing a kernel programming language for mobile computing and describe KLAIM, a language that supports a programming paradigm where processes, lik...
Rocco De Nicola, Gian Luigi Ferrari, Rosario Pugli...
USENIX
2000
13 years 8 months ago
FiST: A Language for Stackable File Systems
Traditional file system development is difficult. Stackable file systems promise to ease the development of file systems by offering a mechanism for incremental development. Unfor...
Erez Zadok, Jason Nieh