Rapid file system development using ptrace

Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Experimental Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Spillane, Richard P ^a   Wright, Charles P ^a   Sivathanu, Gopalan ^a   Zadok, Erez ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monitors; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY; FILE SYSTEMS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; USER INTERFACES;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 37849035186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1281700.1281722     Document Type: Article

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