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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
ANLP
1994
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13 years 9 months ago
Understanding Location Descriptions in the LEI System
Biological specimens have historicallybeen labeled with English descriptions of the location of collection. To perform spatial, statistical, or historic studies, these description...
David N. Chin, Matthew McGranaghan, Tung-Tse Chen
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Binary Device Drivers with RevNIC
This paper presents a technique that helps automate the reverse engineering of device drivers. It takes a closed-source binary driver, automatically reverse engineers the driverâ€...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Facilitating software evolution research with kenyon
Software evolution research inherently has several resourceintensive logistical constraints. Archived project artifacts, such as those found in source code repositories and bug tr...
Jennifer Bevan, E. James Whitehead Jr., Sunghun Ki...