Operating system lockup errors can render a computer unusable by preventing the execution other programs. Watchdog timers can be used to recover from a lockup by resetting the pro...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...
: We explore the abstraction of failure transparency in which the operating system provides the illusion of failure-free operation. To provide failure transparency, an operating sy...
David E. Lowell, Subhachandra Chandra, Peter M. Ch...
Recovery systems must save state before a failure occurs to enable the system to recover from the failure. However, recovery will fail if the recovery system saves any state corru...
Recovering the architecture is the first step towards reengineering a software system. Many reverse engineering tools use top-down exploration as a way of providing a visual and ...
Abstract This paper examines the use of a simulator to explore process interaction in Unix. The simulator allows instructors to trace through a variety of programs and to show how ...