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KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Generic Patch Inference
—A key issue in maintaining Linux device drivers is the need to update drivers in response to evolutions in Linux internal libraries. Currently, there is little tool support for ...
Jesper Andersen, Julia L. Lawall
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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13 years 3 months ago
Linux kernel projects for an undergraduate operating systems course
In this paper, we present a series of programming projects based on the Linux kernel for students in a senior-level undergraduate operating systems course. The projects we describ...
Rob Hess, Paul Paulson
AOSD
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Back to the future: a retroactive study of aspect evolution in operating system code
The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-level. For example, new devic...
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales
SP
2008
IEEE
144views Security Privacy» more  SP 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Cloaker: Hardware Supported Rootkit Concealment
Rootkits are used by malicious attackers who desire to run software on a compromised machine without being detected. They have become stealthier over the years as a consequence of...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...