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Controlling Opaque-Component Effects with Semisolates and Try20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '26)2026-07-13
Introduces semisolates and the unprivileged command try that capture, inspect, stack, and selectively apply filesystem effects from opaque components while…
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hS: Speculative Script Reordering at Subprocess Granularity20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '26)2026-07-13
hS is a system that speculatively executes shell commands out of order by running command instances in sandboxed layers and tracing system calls to detect real…
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Incr: Faster Re-Execution via Bolt-On Incrementalization20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '26)2026-07-13
Incr is a bolt-on system that incrementalizes unmodified shell programs by tracing command effects, running each command in a semi-isolated overlay, and…
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RT: Regular Types for the Streaming Shell20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '26)2026-07-13
RT is an overlay type system that statically checks shell pipelines by modeling command input/output as regular types and reducing composition to…
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Slowpoke: End-to-end Throughput Optimization Modeling for Microservice ApplicationsNSDI '262026-05-04
Slowpoke predicts how a hypothetical optimization changes end-to-end throughput for microservice apps without tracing or a priori call graphs, by slowing down…
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Fractal: Fault-Tolerant Shell-Script DistributionNSDI '262026-05-04
FRACTAL implements fault-tolerant distribution for unmodified shell scripts by treating each worker-assigned fragment as an opaque subgraph and tracking only…
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The Koala Benchmarks for the Shell: Characterization and ImplicationsUSENIX ATC '252025-07-07
Koala is a curated benchmark suite of real POSIX shell programs with permanently stored inputs and automated, configurable tooling that installs dependencies…
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DiSh: Dynamic Shell-Script DistributionNSDI 20232023-04-17
DiSh is a shim that analyzes and transforms existing shell scripts into a distributed dataflow graph, then schedules pieces to cluster nodes while each node…
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Detecting Asymmetric Application-layer Denial-of-Service Attacks In-Flight with FinelameUSENIX ATC '192019-07-10
Finelame instruments the OS with eBPF probes to map request IDs to processing functions and to account malloc and other resource allocations per request…
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