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OSDI
1996
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...
EDCC
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Construction of a Highly Dependable Operating System
It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy drive...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...