USENIX
2001
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2001
In this paper I cover the design and implementation of
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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-...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
The protection mechanisms of current mainstream operating systems are inadequate to support confidentiality and integrity requirements for end systems. Mandatory access control (M...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
2001
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...