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ICSM
2002
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Maintaining Software with a Security Perspective
Testing for software security is a lengthy, complex and costly process. Currently, security testing is done using penetration analysis and formal verification of security kernels....
Kanta Jiwnani, Marvin V. Zelkowitz
CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Code Compaction of an Operating System Kernel
General-purpose operating systems, such as Linux, are increasingly being used in embedded systems. Computational resources are usually limited, and embedded processors often have ...
Haifeng He, John Trimble, Somu Perianayagam, Saumy...
SIGOPS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices
The Linux Kernel currently supports at least 8 distinct virtualization systems: Xen, KVM, VMware's VMI, IBM's System p, IBM's System z, User Mode Linux, lguest and ...
Rusty Russell
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes
We propose a mechanism that allows applications to survive operating system kernel crashes and continue functioning with no application data loss after a system reboot. This mecha...
Alex Depoutovitch, Michael Stumm
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Otherworld: giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes
In this paper, we present a mechanism that allows applications to survive operating system kernel crashes and continue functioning with no application data loss after a system reb...
Alex Depoutovitch, Michael Stumm