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USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 (510)528-8649 fax (510)548-5738 office@usenix.org The USENIX Association Staff ********************************************************************** PROCEEDINGS OF THE USENIX 1992 WINTER CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO, CA January 20-24 TABLE OF CONTENTS KEYNOTE ADDRESS Building the Open Road: The Internet as a Testbed for the National Public Network Mitch Kapor, Electronic Frontier Foundation LIBRARIES Session Chair: Greg Rose, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center COLA: Customized Overlaying Eduardo Krell and Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill LIBTP: Portable, Modular Transactions for UNIX Margo Seltzer and Michael Olson, University of California, Berkeley Exploiting the Advantages of Mapped Files for Stream I/O Orran Krieger, Michael Stumm, and Ron Unrau, University of Toronto FILE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS Session Chair: Andrew Birrell, Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center The Episode File System Sailesh Chutani, Owen T. Anderson, Michael L. Kazar, Bruce W. Leverett, W. Anthony Mason, and Robert N. Sidebotham, Transarc Corporation An Implementation of Large Files for BSD UNIX Dave Shaver, Eric Schnoebelen, and George Bier, CONVEX Computer Corporation Storage Efficient Reliable Files Walt Burkhard and Petar D. Stojadinovic, University of California, San Diego INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS Session Chair: Bob Gray, U S WEST Advanced Technologies Multimedia Mail From the Bottom Up -or- Teaching Dumb Mailers to Sing Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet Alan Emtage and Peter Deutsch, McGill University X Widget Based Software Tools for UNIX Doug Blewett, Scott Anderson, Meg Kilduff, and Mike Wish, AT&T Bell Laboratories , Murray Hill PANEL Moderator: Dan Geer, Geer/Zolot Associates Intellectual Property-Who Should Own Your Work? PRACTICAL POINTS Session Chair: Rick Adams, UUNET Technologies, Inc. Purify: A Tool for Detecting Memory Leaks and Access Errors in C and C++ Programs Reed Hastings and Bob Joyce, Pure Software Creating MANs using LAN Technology: Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules Stanley P. Hanks, Technology Transfer Associates Realtime Workstation Performance for MIDI Robin Schaufler, Silicon Graphics, Inc. HACKING AND CRACKING Session Chair: David Rosenthal, SunSoft agrep-A Fast Approximate Pattern-Matching Tool Sun Wu and Udi Manber, University of Arizona, Tucson An Evening with Berferd in Which a Cracker is Lured, Endured, and Studied Bill Cheswick, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Hijacking AFS P. Honeyman, L.B. Huston, and M.T. Stolarchuk, The University of Michigan, Center for Information Technology Integration UNIX MEETS THE REAL WORLD Session Chair: Pat Parseghian, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill An Information Bus Architecture for Large-Scale, Decision- Support Environments Dale Skeen, Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. Application Software: Product Management and Privileges Bernard Wagner, Ciba-Geigy AG and Bruce K. Haddon, Storage Technology Corporation Applying Threads Jay Littman, Hewlett-Packard HARDWARE ISSUES Session Chair: Thomas Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco Open Boot Firmware Mitch Bradley, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Loge: A Self-Organizing Disk Controller Robert M. English and Alexander A. Stepanov, Hewlett-Packard How and Why SCSI is Better Than IPI for NFS Bruce Nelson and Yu-Ping Cheng, Auspex Systems LOAD BALANCING Session Chair: Steve Johnson, Athenix Process Control and Communication in Distributed CAD Environments Douglas Rosenthal, Wayne Allen, and Kenneth Fiduk, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation Supporting Checkpointing and Process Migration Outside the UNIX Kernel Michael Litzkow and Marvin Solomon, University of Wisconsin, Madison The OpenSim Approach-Tools for Management and Analysis of Simulation Jobs Matt W. Mutka and Philip K. McKinley, Michigan State University, East Lansing FILESYSTEM PERFORMANCE Session Chair: Brent Welch, Xerox PARC Multi-level Caching in Distributed File Systems -or- your cache ain't nuthin' but trash D. Muntz and P. Honeyman, The University of Michigan, Center for Information Technology Integration A Trace-Driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed System Ken Shirriff and John K. Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley NFS Tracing by Passive Network Monitoring Matt Blaze, Princeton University SCHEDULING Session Chair: Teus Hagen, OCE Issues in Implementation of Cache-Affinity Scheduling Murthy Devarakonda and Arup Mukherjee, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Control Considerations for CPU Scheduling in UNIX Systems Joseph L. Hellerstein, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights Realtime Scheduling in SunOS 5.0 Sandeep Khanna, Michael Sebree, and John Zolnowsky, SunSoft OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Session Chair: Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry Meets the Perl Programming Language Sharon Hopkins, Telos Corporation 3DFS: A Time-Oriented File Server William D. Roome, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Faster String Functions Henry Spencer, University of Toronto A History of the COSNIX Operating System: Assembly Language, UNIX 1970 to July 1991 Alan E. Kaplan, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. 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