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2004
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MEMS-based Storage Devices and Standard Disk Interfaces: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?
MEMS-based storage devices (MEMStores) are significantly different from both disk drives and semiconductor memories. The differences motivate the queswhether they need new abstrac...
Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger
FAST
2003
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Design and Implementation of Semi-preemptible IO
Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk IOs is of particular benefit to delay-sensitive multimedia and real-time systems. In this paper we propose Semi-preempti...
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, Edward Y. Cha...
USENIX
2001
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Kqueue - A Generic and Scalable Event Notification Facility
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...
Jonathan Lemon
USS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Fixing Races for Fun and Profit: How to Use access(2)
It is well known that it is insecure to use the access(2) system call in a setuid program to test for the ability of the program's executor to access a file before opening sa...
Drew Dean, Alan J. Hu
USENIX
2000
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Scalable Network I/O in Linux
Recent highly publicized benchmarks have suggested that Linux systems do not scale as well as other systems, such as Windows NT, when used as network servers. Windows NT contains ...
Niels Provos, Chuck Lever