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Constructing component-based extension interfaces in legacy systems code

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Gilles Muller,

Julia L. Lawall,

Jean-Marc Menaud,

Mario SüdholtAuthors Info & Claims

EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

Pages 15 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1133572.1133605

Published: 19 September 2004 Publication History

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Implementing an extension of a legacy operating system requires knowing what functionalities the extension should provide and how the extension should be integrated with the legacy code. To resolve the first problem, we propose that the use of a component model can make explicit the interface between an extension and legacy code. To resolve the second problem, we propose to augment interface specifications with rewrite rules that integrate support for extensions in the legacy code. We illustrate our approach using extensions that add new scheduling policies to Linux and prefetching to the Squid Web cache. In both cases a small number of rules are sufficient to describe modifications that apply across the implementation of a large legacy system.

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EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

September 2004

214 pages

ISBN:9781450378079

DOI:10.1145/1133572

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K. U. Leuven, Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
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Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge, UK

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Muller GPadioleau YLawall JHansen R(2006)Semantic patches considered helpfulACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1151374.115139240:3(90-92)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1151374.1151392
Fiuczynski MGrimm RCoady YWalker D(2005)patch (1) considered harmfulProceedings of the 10th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 1010.5555/1251123.1251139(16-16)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1251123.1251139
Jun XChenyu CXiaoge W(2005)Design and Implementation of an Agile Kernel Component RuntimeProceedings of the Second International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems10.1109/ICESS.2005.42(73-80)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICESS.2005.42
Muller GLawall JDuchesne H(2005)A Framework for Simplifying the Development of Kernel SchedulersProceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering10.1109/HASE.2005.1(56-65)Online publication date: 12-Oct-2005
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