Object-oriented interfaces in the Mach 3.0 multi-server system

Author

Guedes, Paulo ; Julin, Daniel P.

Author_Institution

OSF Res. Inst., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

17-18 Oct 1991

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

117

Abstract

The Mach 3.0 multi-server system decomposes the functionality of the operating system between a micro-kernel, a set of system servers running in user-mode and an emulation library executing in the address space of applications. The interfaces provided by the system servers are object-oriented and both the servers and the emulation library are written in an object-oriented language. This paper presents how the interfaces between the components are specified and implemented to guarantee consistency and early detection of errors, yet maintaining the flexibility to extend and configure the system by adding new or modified servers without affecting existing pieces

Keywords

network servers; object-oriented programming; operating systems (computers); Mach 3.0; emulation library; error detection; micro-kernel; multi-server system; object-oriented interfaces; object-oriented language; operating system; system servers; Application software; Emulation; File servers; Kernel; Libraries; Network servers; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object Orientation in Operating Systems, 1991. Proceedings., 1991 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Palo Alto, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2265-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWOOOS.1991.183033

Filename

183033