Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
@article{Engler1995ExokernelAO, title={Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management}, author={D. Engler and M. Kaashoek and J. O'Toole}, journal={Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles}, year={1995} }
Traditional operating systems limit the performance, flexibility, and functionality of applications by fixing the interface and implementation of operating system abstractions such as interprocess communication and virtual memory. The exokernel operating system architecture addresses this problem by providing application-level management of physical resources. In the exokernel architecture, a small kernel securely exports all hardware resources through a low-level interface to untrusted library… Expand
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