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USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Reboots Are for Hardware: Challenges and Solutions to Updating an Operating System on the Fly
Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Position paper: Meaningful updates to executing programs
Techniques to update executing programs are needed to maintain software for which downtime is not an option. Without guidelines, dynamic update may provoke unreliable and unpredic...
Pierre Duquesne, Ciarán Bryce
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...