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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
RELAY: static race detection on millions of lines of code
Data races occur when multiple threads are about to access the same piece of memory, and at least one of those accesses is a write. Such races can lead to hard-to-reproduce bugs t...
Jan Wen Voung, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner
SP
2002
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Using Programmer-Written Compiler Extensions to Catch Security Holes
This paper shows how system-speci c static analysis can nd security errors that violate rules such as \integers from untrusted sources must be sanitized before use" and \do n...
Ken Ashcraft, Dawson R. Engler
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Secure virtual architecture: a safe execution environment for commodity operating systems
This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Competitive prefetching for concurrent sequential I/O
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Analysis of signature change patterns
Software continually changes due to performance improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and adaptation to a changing operational environment. Common changes include modificatio...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jennifer Beva...