USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The 2000 Usenix Technical Conference included a presentation outlining the state of the X rendering environment and the capabilities necessary to bring X into the modern world. Du...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
In this paper I cover the design and implementation of
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The rapid growth of the Internet has made IP addresses a scarce resource. To get around this problem, today and in the foreseeable future, networks will be deployed with reusable-...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Nickle is a vaguely C-like programming language for numerical applications, useful both as a desk calculator and as a prototyping and implementation language for numerical and sem...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The protection mechanisms of current mainstream operating systems are inadequate to support confidentiality and integrity requirements for end systems. Mandatory access control (M...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Applications running on a UNIX platform need to be notified when some activity occurs on a socket or other descriptor, and this is traditionally done with the select() or poll() s...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
We present a pragmatic methodology for designing nonblocking real-time systems. Our methodology uses a combination of lock-free and wait-free synchronization techniques and clearl...