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ICSM
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Michael W. Godfrey, Qiang Tu
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware pag...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, C...
CACM
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The Singularity system
Every operating system embodies a collection of design decisions. Many of the decisions behind systems have remained unchanged, even as hardware and software have evolved. Operati...
James R. Larus, Galen C. Hunt
USENIX
1990
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient User-Level File Cache Management on the Sun Vnode Interface
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reducing TCB complexity for security-sensitive applications: three case studies
The large size and high complexity of securitysensitive applications and systems software is a primary cause for their poor testability and high vulnerability. One approach to all...
Lenin Singaravelu, Calton Pu, Hermann Härtig,...