Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
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Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...
Software attacks often subvert the intended data-flow in a vulnerable program. For example, attackers exploit buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities to write data to u...
Power management in data centers has become an increasingly important concern. Large server installations are designed to handle peak load, which may be significantly larger than...
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: Run-time executives and operating system kernels for embedded systems have long relied exclusively on static priority scheduling of tasks to ensure timing constraints and other c...