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USENIX
1996
13 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
The current trend in operating systems research is to allow applications to dynamically extend the kernel to improve application performance or extend functionality, but the most ...
Christopher Small, Margo I. Seltzer
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Lightweight kernel/user communication for real-time and multimedia applications
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Fast byte-granularity software fault isolation
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...