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Fault Tolerant Operating Systems

The work

AuthorsPeter James Denning
Editors
Typearticle
Year1976
Citekeydenning1976fault

Where it appeared

Published inACM Computing Surveys
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume8
Issue4
Pages359--389

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/356678.356680
OpenAlexW2047924755

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Abstract

This paper develops four related architectural principles which can guide the construction of error-tolerant operating systems.The fundamental principle, system closure, specifies that no action is permissible unless explicitly authorized.The capability based machine is the most efficient known embodiment of this principle: it allows efficient small access domains, multiple domain processes without a privileged mode of operation, and user and system descriptor information protected by the same mechanism.System closure implies a second principle, resource control, that prevents processes from exchanging information via residual values left in physical resource units.These two principles enable a third, decision verification by failure-independent processes.These principles enable prompt error detection and cost-effective recovery.Implementations of these principles are given for process management, interrupts and traps, store access through capabilities, protected procedure entry, and tagged architecture.

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@article{denning1976fault,
  title        = {Fault Tolerant Operating Systems},
  author       = {Peter James Denning},
  year         = {1976},
  journal      = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  volume       = {8},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {359--389},
  doi          = {10.1145/356678.356680},
}

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