Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications f...
It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy drive...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
The need for supportingvarietyof hard and soft real-time, as well as best effort applications ina multimedia computing environment requires an operating system framework that: (1)...
Abstract: The undergraduate operating systems course can provide students with a valuable introduction to empirical testing and experimentation. This paper announces the availabili...
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...