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SIGOPS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a larg...
JSS
2010
13 years 3 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...
IRI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
The Linux kernel stack has a fixed size. There is no mechanism to prevent the kernel from overflowing the stack. Hackers can exploit this bug to put unwanted information in the me...
ICSM
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
JSS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Common coupling (sharing global variables across modules) is widely accepted as a measure of software quality and maintainability; a low level of common coupling is necessary (but...