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System Call Interface

The **System Call Interface** is a formal specification within operating system design that defines the standardized mechanism by which user-level processes request privileged services from the kernel, distinguished from other kernel interfaces by its role as the controlled boundary between user space and kernel space for invoking system calls.

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Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Amin Vahdat, Chandu Thekkath · 2012 · 450 citations

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Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Kimberly Keeton, Timothy Roscoe · 2016 · 319 citations

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Mondrian memory protection

Emmett Witchel, Joshua Cates, Krste Asanović · 2002 · 313 citations

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Firefly: a multiprocessor workstation

Charles P. Thacker, Lawrence Stewart · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1987 · 236 citations · Full text

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Traps and Pitfalls: Practical Problems in System Call Interposition Based Security Tools.

Tal Garfinkel · 2003 · 222 citations

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Authors

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  1. CP
    Charles P. Thacker

    Digital Wave (United States), United States

    5 publications · 449 citations

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  2. LS
    Lawrence Stewart

    Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

    5 publications · 449 citations

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  3. MF
    M. Frans Kaashoek

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 221 citations

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  4. MB
    Michael B. Jones

    Microsoft (United States), United States

    3 publications · 186 citations

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  5. ED
    Edward D. Lazowska

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 45 citations

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  1. Digital Wave (United States)

    Centennial, United States

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Advanced Micro Devices (Canada)

    Markham, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    53 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    535 citations

  4. Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    86 citations

  5. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    187 citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    33 citations

  7. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    353 citations

  8. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    185 citations

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  1. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

    5 publications · 508 citations

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  2. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

    TOCS · 3 publications · 137 citations

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  3. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  4. Computer Assisted Language Learning

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  5. IEEE Security & Privacy

    1 publications · 21 citations

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