ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
FAST
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2010
IEEE
Code injection continues to pose a serious threat to computer systems. Among existing solutions, W X is a notable approach to prevent the execution of injected code. In this paper...
JSS
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
PDPTA
2000
14 years 1 months ago
2000
Performance Oriented Distributed Operating System (PODOS) is a clustering environment, being built on a monolithic Linux kernel. PODOS augments very few components to the Linux ke...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
The prevention of damage caused to a system via malicious executables is a significant issue in the current state of security on Linux operating systems. Several approaches are av...
ISCAPDCS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The Linux kernel 2.6.23 scheduler includes substantial changes that may entice researchers with no prior interest in Linux to attempt to understand or modify its behavior. Often, ...
SPLC
2010
14 years 1 months ago
2010
Abstract. Understanding the challenges faced by real projects in evolving variability models, is a prerequisite for providing adequate support for such undertakings. We study the e...
RTSS
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Power management in data centers has become an increasingly important concern. Large server installations are designed to handle peak load, which may be significantly larger than...