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Extensible Operating Systems Overview by Shaikh Mohammed Love is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses extensible operating systems and different approaches to extending OS functionality. It describes how extensions can add or modify existing services and provide examples like faster device drivers or sort/search routines. The risks of extensions compromising the OS are mentioned. Dynamic linking, libraries, microkernel architecture, and exokernels are presented as ways to enable extensions. Security concerns with third-party extensions running in user space are also summarized.
- Author
- Shaikh Mohammed Love
- Language
- EN