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2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
ICDE
1993
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Transaction Support in a Log-Structured File System
This paper presents the design and implementation of a transaction manager embedded in a log-structured file system [11]. Measurements show that transaction support on a log-stru...
Margo I. Seltzer
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
xCalls: safe I/O in memory transactions
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Delimited Continuations in Operating Systems
Abstract. Delimited continuations are the meanings of delimited evaluation contexts in programming languages. We show they offer a uniform view of many scenarios that arise in sys...
Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan
WSC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Model-based Systems Analysis Using CSIM18
Achieving the best possible cost performance for a system is often the goal of the manager of that system. This is true for large systems (such as an entire railroad system) as we...
Herbert D. Schwetman