This paper describes a new program, correct, which takes words rejected by the Unix spell program, proposes a list of candidate corrections, and sorts them by probability. The pro...
Mark D. Kernighan, Kenneth Ward Church, William A....
Applications running on a UNIX platform need to be notified when some activity occurs on a socket or other descriptor, and this is traditionally done with the select() or poll() s...
We describe the design, implementation and performance of a Web server accelerator which runs on an embedded operating system and improves Web server performance by caching data. ...
Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Arun Iyengar, Junehwa Song, Da...
As an alternative to communication via messages or files, shared memory has the potential to be simpler, faster, and less wasteful of space. Unfortunately, the mechanisms availab...
W. E. Garrett, Michael L. Scott, Ricardo Bianchini...
UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user--not just the system administrator--to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up f...