Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls

Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Nafiseh Kahani, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan, Juergen Dingel, James R. Cordy

Abstract

The Linux kernel provides its services to the application layer using so-called system calls. All system calls combined form the Application Programming Interface (API) of the kernel. Hence, system calls provide us with a window into the development process and design decisions that are made for the Linux kernel. Our paper [1] presents the result of an empirical study of the changes (8,770) that were made to the system calls during the last decade (i.e., from April 2005 to December 2014). The main contributions and most important findings of our study are:

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Bagherzadeh-al:ICSE18,
  author    = {Mojtaba Bagherzadeh and
               Nafiseh Kahani and
               Cor{-}Paul Bezemer and
               Ahmed E. Hassan and
               Juergen Dingel and
               James R. Cordy},
  title     = {Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {267},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2018},
}

Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls

Abstract

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