A commonly used type of search tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) "less than" versus "greater than or equal to" tests ...
Many operating systems allow user programs to specify the protectionlevel (inaccessible, read-only, read-write) of pages in their virtual memory address space, and to handle any p...
The trend in microprocessor design toward multicore and manycore processors means that future performance gains in software will largely come from harnessing parallelism. To reali...
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
Modern computer work stations provide thousands of applications that store data in >100.000 files on the file system of the underlying OS. To handle these files data process...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Do...