Proceedings of the Usenix Winter 1993 Technical Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 1993. Usenix Association, 1993

Libraries & Links

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  Stephen C. North, Kiem-Phong Vo: Dictionary and Graph Libraries. 1-12
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  W. E. Garrett, Michael L. Scott, Ricardo Bianchini, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, R. A. McCallum, J. A. Thomas, Robert W. Wisniewski, S. Luk: Linking Shared Segments. 13-28
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  Frank Mueller: A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads under UNIX. 29-42

New Views

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  Rob Pike, Ken Thompson: Hello World. 43-50
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  Paul Haahr, Byron Rakitzis: Es: A shell with higher-order functions. 51-60
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  James S. Plank: Jgraph - A Filter for Plotting Graphs in PostScript. 61-66

Tuning

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  Michael T. Stolarchuk: Faster AFS. 67-76
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  Ronald Minnich: The AutoCacher: A File Cache Which Operates at the NFS Level. 77-84
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  Sunil Saxena, J. Kent Peacock, Fred Yang, Vijaya Verma, Mohan Krishnan: Pitfalls in Multithreading SVR4 STREAMS and Other Weightless Processes. 85-96

Tools

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  Nicholas Sterling: WARLOCK - A Static Data Race Analysis Tool. 97-106
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  Michael Golan, David R. Hanson: DUEL - A Very High-Level Debugging Language. 107-118
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  Chris Peak: The San Diego ``Zoo'': A multicomputer stress test suite. 119-130

Communications

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  Stephen A. Uhler: PhoneStation, Moving the Telephone onto the Virtual Desktop. 131-140
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  Vern Paxson, Chris Saltmarsh: Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems. 141-156
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  Bruno d'Ausbourg, Christel Calas: UNIX Services for Multilevel Storage and Communications Over a Secure LAN. 157-168

Xbits

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  Joel McCormack, Bob McNamara: A Sketch Of The Smart Frame Buffer. 169-180
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  Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Nusser: Wafe - An X Toolkit Based Frontend for Application Programs in Various Programming Languages. 181-192
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  Carl Schmidtmann, Michael Tao, Steven Watt: Design and Implementation of a Multi-Threaded Xlib. 193-204

Filesystems I

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  Michael A. Olson: The Design and Implementation of the Inversion File System. 205-218
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  Neil Webber: Operating System Support for Portable Filesystem Extensions. 219-228
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  Paul R. Eggert, Douglas Stott Parker Jr.: File Systems in User Space. 229-240

Overhead

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  Hyuck Yoo, Tom Rogers: UNIX Kernel Support for OLTP Performance. 241-248
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  Jonathan S. Kay, Joseph Pasquale: Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement of UDP/IP Throughput for the DECstation 5000. 249-258
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  Steven McCanne, Van Jacobson: The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture. 259-270

I/O, I/O

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  David L. Presotto, Phil Winterbottom: The Organization of Networks in Plan 9. 271-280
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  Howard Alt: Removable Media in Solaris. 281-288
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  Christopher J. Calabrese: An Advanced Tape Cataloging System for UNIX Systems. 289-294

Kernel Improvements

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  Paul E. McKenney, Jack Slingwine: Efficient Kernel Memory Allocation on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. 295-306
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  Margo I. Seltzer, Keith Bostic, Marshall K. McKusick, Carl Staelin: An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX. 307-326
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  Kevin R. Fall, Joseph Pasquale: Exploiting In-Kernel Data Paths to Improve I/O Throughput and CPU Availability. 327-334

Information Discovery

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  David C. M. Wood, Sean S. Coleman, Michael F. Schwartz: Fremont: A System for Discovering Network Characteristics and Problems. 335-348
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  C. Mic Bowman, Chanda Dharap: The Enterprise Distributed White-pages Service. 349-360
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  Darren R. Hardy, Michael F. Schwartz: Essence: A Resource Discovery System Based on Semantic File Indexing. 361-374

Monitoring

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  Andrew McRae: Hardware Profiling of Kernels. 375-386
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  Steven McCanne, Chris Torek: A Randomized Sampling Clock for CPU Utilization Estimation and Code Profiling. 387-394
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  Daniel R. Edelson: Fault Interpretation: Fine-Grain Monitoring of Page Accesses. 395-404

Filesystems II

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  Chris Ruemmler, John Wilkes: UNIX Disk Access Patterns. 405-420
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  Ethan L. Miller, Randy H. Katz: An Analysis of File Migration in a UNIX Supercomputing Environment. 421-434
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  John T. Kohl, Carl Staelin, Michael Stonebraker: HighLight: Using a Log-structured File System for Tertiary Storage Management. 435-448

O/S Implementations

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  Roman Zajcew, Paul Roy, David L. Black, Chris Peak, Paulo Guedes, Bradford Kemp, John LoVerso, Michael Leibensperger, Michael Barnett, Faramarz Rabii, Durriya Netterwala: An OSF/1 UNIX for Massively Parallel Multicomputers. 449-468
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  Yousef Y. A. Khalidi, Michael N. Nelson: An Implementation of UNIX on an Object-oriented Operating System. 469-480
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  Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E. Anderson: The Nachos Instructional Operating System. 481-488

Cache & Carry

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  John Ioannidis, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.: The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Internetworking Architecture. 489-502
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  Hiromi Wada, Takashi Yozawa, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Yasunori Tanaka: Mobile Computing Environment Based on Internet Packet Forwarding. 503-518
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  Fred Douglis: The Compression Cache: Using On-line Compression to Extend Physical Memory. 519-529