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VEE
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Protecting applications against TOCTTOU races by user-space caching of file metadata
Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Mathias Payer, Thomas R. Gross
OOPSLA
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Object Views: Language Support for Intelligent Object Caching in Parallel and Distributed Computations
Object-based parallel and distributed applications are becoming increasingly popular, driven by the programmability advantages of component technology and a flat shared-object spa...
Ilya Lipkind, Igor Pechtchanski, Vijay Karamcheti
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Hardbound: architectural support for spatial safety of the C programming language
The C programming language is at least as well known for its absence of spatial memory safety guarantees (i.e., lack of bounds checking) as it is for its high performance. C'...
Joe Devietti, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin, S...
CACM
2008
131views more  CACM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Exterminator: Automatically correcting memory errors with high probability
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. These errors, which can lead to crashes, erroneous execution, and...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn