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SIGCSE
2012
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Teaching operating systems using android
The computing landscape is shifting towards mobile devices. To learn about operating systems, it is increasingly important for students to gain hands-on kernel programming experie...
Jeremy Andrus, Jason Nieh
JSS
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
Ayelet Israeli, Dror G. Feitelson
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Dynamic and adaptive updates of non-quiescent subsystems in commodity operating system kernels
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu
ENTCS
2008
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14 years 10 months ago
An Open System Operational Semantics for an Object-Oriented and Component-Based Language
Object orientation and component-based development have both proven useful for the elaboration of open distributed systems. These paradigms are offered by the Creol language. Creo...
Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Olaf Owe
OSDI
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
CP-Miner: A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System Code
Copy-pasted code is very common in large software because programmers prefer reusing code via copy-paste in order to reduce programming effort. Recent studies show that copy-paste...
Zhenmin Li, Shan Lu, Suvda Myagmar, Yuanyuan Zhou