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CODASPY
2012
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying native applications with high assurance
Main stream operating system kernels lack a strong and reliable mechanism for identifying the running processes and binding them to the corresponding executable applications. In t...
Hussain M. J. Almohri, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Denni...
HASKELL
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Running the manual: an approach to high-assurance microkernel development
We propose a development methodology for designing and prototyping high assurance microkernels, and describe our application of it. The methodology is based on rapid prototyping a...
Philip Derrin, Kevin Elphinstone, Gerwin Klein, Da...
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Hardware Works, Software Doesn't: Enforcing Modularity with Mondriaan Memory Protection
Two big problems with operating systems written in unsafe languages are that they crash too often and that adding features becomes much more difficult over time. One cause of bot...
Emmett Witchel, Krste Asanovic
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Using iPodLinux in an introductory OS course
This paper describes a proof of concept for introducing iPods and iPodLinux into a one-semester introductory undergraduate operating systems course. iPodLinux is a version of the ...
Barry Lawson, Lewis Barnett
USENIX
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai