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OOPSLA
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Thorn: robust, concurrent, extensible scripting on the JVM
Scripting languages enjoy great popularity due their support for rapid and exploratory development. They typically have lightweight syntax, weak data privacy, dynamic typing, powe...
Bard Bloom, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, Johan &...
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A control point for reducing root abuse of file-system privileges
We address the problem of restricting root’s ability to change arbitrary files on disk, in order to prevent abuse on most current desktop operating systems. The approach first...
Glenn Wurster, Paul C. van Oorschot
SOSP
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
The multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems
Commodity computer systems contain more and more processor cores and exhibit increasingly diverse architectural tradeoffs, including memory hierarchies, interconnects, instructio...
Andrew Baumann, Paul Barham, Pierre-Évarist...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications and Non-dedicated Clusters of Workstations
Time-sharing operating systems may delay application processing of incoming messages because other processes are scheduled when the messages arrive. In this paper, we present a sim...
Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher
LISA
2001
15 years 8 months ago
TemplateTree II: The Post-Installation Setup Tool
After installing an OS distribution, a computer is generally not yet properly adapted to go into production at the local site. Security policies must be implemented, local service...
Tobias Oetiker