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USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System
In this paper I cover the design and implementation of
Luke Mewburn
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
A Waypoint Service Approach to Connect Heterogeneous Internet Address Spaces
The rapid growth of the Internet has made IP addresses a scarce resource. To get around this problem, today and in the foreseeable future, networks will be deployed with reusable-...
T. S. Eugene Ng, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Nickle: Language Principles and Pragmatics
Nickle is a vaguely C-like programming language for numerical applications, useful both as a desk calculator and as a prototyping and implementation language for numerical and sem...
Bart Massey, Keith Packard
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Scalable Linux Scheduling
For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
Stephen Molloy, Peter Honeyman
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Integrating Flexible Support for Security Policies into the Linux Operating System
The protection mechanisms of current mainstream operating systems are inadequate to support confidentiality and integrity requirements for end systems. Mandatory access control (M...
Peter Loscocco, Stephen Smalley
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Kqueue - A Generic and Scalable Event Notification Facility
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...
Jonathan Lemon
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Improving the FreeBSD SMP Implementation
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
Greg Lehey
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Pragmatic Nonblocking Synchronization for Real-Time Systems
We present a pragmatic methodology for designing nonblocking real-time systems. Our methodology uses a combination of lock-free and wait-free synchronization techniques and clearl...
Michael Hohmuth, Hermann Härtig
USENIX
2001
14 years 28 days ago
The X Resize and Rotate Extension - RandR
The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that...
Jim Gettys, Keith Packard