OS bugs
Dr. Yair Wiseman's home page
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D. Engler. "An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors", In
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on OS Principles (SOSP),
pp. 73-88, Lake Louise, Alta, Canada, October 2001.
M. M. Swift, B. N. Bershad, and H. M. Levy,
"Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems",
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles,
Bolton Landing, New York, October 19-22, 2003.
D. G. Majors, "An Investigation of the Call
Integrity of the Linux System", 14th. IEEE International Symposium on
Software, Reliability Engineering ISSRE 2003, Denver, Colorado, November
17-20, 2003.
J. Xu, Z. Kalbarczyk, and R. Iyer, "Networked
Windows NT System Field Failure Data Analysis," Proc. 1999 Pacific Rim
Int'l Symp. Dependable Computing, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos,
California, 1999.
N. E. Fenton and N. Ohlsson, "Quantitative
Analysis of Faults and Failures in a Complex Software System", IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, 26(8), pp. 797-814, August, 2000.
Z. Li, S. Lu, S. Myagmar, and Y. Zhou, "CP-Miner:
A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System
Code", The 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and
Implementation (OSDI '04), San Francisco, California, December 6-8, 2004.
M. E. Fiuczynski, R. Grimm, Y. Coady and
D. Walker, "patch (1) Considered Harmful", Proceedings of the Tenth
Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-X), June 12-15,
Santa-Fe, NM, 2005.
M. Swift, M. Annamalai, B. N. Bershad, H.
M. Levy, "Recovering Device Drivers", The 6th Symposium on Operating
Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04), San Francisco,
California, pp. 1-16, December 6-8, 2004.
R. Lemos, "Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws", CNET
News.com, December 13, 2004.