USENIX Association. Summer Conference Proceedings Portland 1985

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1 USENIX Association Summer Conference Proceedings Portland 1985 UNIVERSITATSBIBUOTHEK HANNOVER TECHNISCHE INTORMATtONSBtBUOTHEKJ June 11 14,1985 Portland, Oregon USA

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Wednesday, June 12, 1985 PLENARY SESSION Wednesday (8:30 10:00) Chair: Steve Glaser Opening Remarks Conference Organizers and USENIX board KEYNOTE ADDRESS: UNIX EVOLUTIONrPast, Present, Future V. A. Vyssotsky, AT&T Bell Laboratories Victor A. Vyssotsky is Executive Director of the Research Information Sciences Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since joining Bell Laboratories in 1956, his work has been primarily in the field of computing. In the late 1950's he was involved in the development of compilers, operating systems and other general purpose software for use with commercially manufactured computers. More recently, he was associated with development of computing hardware and software for the SAFEGUARD ballistic missle defense system. From 1972 until 1980 he worked on computer systems which automate various business procedures of Bell System telephone companies. In his present assignment he is responsible for research in computing science, mathematics, statistics, behavioral sciences and acoustics. ELECTRONIC DARWINISM Wednesday (10:30 11:45) Chair: Greg Chesson Computer Structures are Changing Will Unix Change With Them? 1 Gordon Bell, Encore Computer UNIX on a Microprocessor - 10 years Later 5 Heinz Lycklama, Interactive Systems Parlez-Vous L'UNIX? The European Perspective, Past and Future 17 Jean Wood, DEC

3 LANGUAGES I Wednesday (1:15 2:45) Chair: Steve Johnson ^ An Exception Handler for C 25 Eric Allman & David Been, Britton-Lee si - An Interpreter for the C Language 47 Alan A. Feuer, Catalytix Corp. An Extensible I/O Facility for C Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Bell Laboratories NETWORKING I Wednesday (1:15 2:45) Chair: Mike Karels SunNet: A Friendly and Cooperative Networking Environment 71 JoMei Chang, Sun Microsystems Project Stargate 79 Lauren Weinstein, Computer/Telecommunications Consultant Face the Nation 81 Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, A T&TBell Laboratories LANGUAGES II Wednesday (3:15 4:45) Chair: Steve Johnson The Snocone Programming Language 87 A ndrew Koenig, AT&T Bell Laboratories Camphor - A Programming Environment for Extensible Systems 107 Michael Leon Kazar, ITC/CMU

4 , NETWORKING II Wednesday (3:15 4:45) Chair: Mike Karels A Recipe for Establishing Point-to-Point IP/TCP Network Links with 4.2BSD UNIX 113 Thomas E. Ferrin, U. California Computer Graphics Lab The Design and Implementation of the Sun Network File System 119 Russel Sandberg, Sun Microsystems An Implementation of an Extended File System for Unix 131 Atlas, Cole, and Flinn, Masscomp TOOLS I Thursday (8:30 9:45) Chair: Dennis Ritchie A Debugger for the Unix Kernel 151 Steven A. Zimmerman, Masscomp Multiprocess Debugging 155 Mark Himelstein and Peter Rowell A Fourth Generation Make 159 Glenn S. Fowler, AT&T Bell Laboratories ARRAY PROCESSING Thursday (8:30 9:45) Chair: Nancy Blachman Array Processing Under Unix 175 Peter H. Berens, Apunix Computer Services Integral Array Processing in a Multiprocessor Unix Environment 183 Nugent, Hewson, and Cullen, Masscomp A Parallel Array-Processing Environment under 4.2BSD Unix 195 Jaenson, Brown, Umrigar, and Taylor, Cornell University

5 TOOLS II Thursday (10:15 11:45) Chair: Dennis Ritchie A Stable Storage Package 209 Bruce Ellis, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Dbxtool - A Window- and Mouse-based Symbolic Debugger 213 Even Adams and Steven S. Muchnick, Sun Microsystems A Rich Man's SCCS 229 Rev. David Yost, Laurel Arts MULTI-PROCESSING Thursday (10:15 11:45) Chair: Steve Emmerich Tunis - A Distributed Multiprocessor Operating System 247 Ewens, Blythe, Funkenhauser, and Holt, U. of Toronto VLSI Assist in Building a Multiprocessor Unix System 255 Bob Beck, and Bob Kasten, Sequent Implementing Loosely-Coupled Functions on a Tightly-Coupled Engine 277 Jack Innman, Sequent OPERATING SYSTEMS I Thursday (1:15 2:45) Chair: Kirk McKusick Lightweight Processes for Unix Implementation and Applications 299 Jonathan Kepecs, Sun Microsystems Interprocess Communication in the 8th Edition Unix System 309 Presotto and Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories User-Level Shared Variables 317 Don Libes, National Bureau of Standards

6 INTERFACES Thursday (1:15 2:45) Chair: Sally Browning LEVI - A Prototype Active Assistance Interface 325 Matthews and Nolan, U. of South Carolina Unix Tools for a Personal Database 333 Michael J. Hawley, Lucasfilm Thoughts on an All-Natural User Interface 343 Marion O. Harris, Bell Communications Research OPERATING SYSTEMS II Thursday (3:15 4:45) Chair: Tom Ferrin A XINU Virtual Machine 349 Bachrach, Wallerius, and Paris, UCSD Device Drivers in a Multiprocessor Environment 357. Ed Gould, MT. XINU Porting the AT&T Demand-Paged Unix Implementation to Microcomputers 361 Robert S. Jung, Unisoft WINDOWS Thursday (3:15 4:45) Chair: Rob Pike A Capability-Based Hierarchic Architecture for Unix Window Management 373 R. D. Trammel, Metheus MEX - A Window Manager for the IRIS 381 Rhodes, Haeberli, and Hickman, Silicon Graphics Windows for Unix at Lucasfilm ~ A Sun that Programs Like a BLIT (and tastes like a Big Mac) 393 Hawley and Leffler, Lucasfilm

7 PERFORMANCE I Friday (9:00 10:30) Chair: Clem Cole A File System Tracing Package for Berkeley UNIX 407 Zhou, Dacosta, and Smith, U. C. Berkeley A Multiprocessor Performance Measurement Tool 421 Rowe, Sartzetakis, and Vishnubhatla, Carleton University HARD WORK I Friday (9:00 10:30) Chair: Eric Allman Experiences With Electronic Software Distribution 433 Catherine A. Brooks, AT&T Bell Laboratorties Documenting Unix: Beyond Man Pages 437 Shattan and Hecker, Tektronix MH.5: How to process 200 Messages a Day and Still Do Some Real Work 455 Marshall T. Rose and John Romine, U. C. Irvine PERFORMANCE II Friday (11:00 12:30) Chair: Clem Cole In Search of a Better Malloc 489 David G. Korn, Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Bell Labs The Impact of Buffer Management on Network Software Performance in 4.2: A Case Study 507 Cabrera, Karels, and Mosher, CSRG/UCB Performance Improvements and Functional Enhancements in 4.3BSD 519 McKusick and Karels, CSRG/UCB & Sam Leffler, Lucasfilm

8 MAIL Friday (11:00 12:30) Chair: Eric Allman Upas - a Simpler Approach to Network Mail 533 David L. Presotto, AT&T Bell Laboratories SM: A Small Mailer 539 Eben Ostby and Allan Kaplan, Lucasfilm Sendmail Revisited 547 Eric Allman, Britton-Lee Miriam Amos, DEC HARD WORK II Friday (2:00 3:30) Chair: Greg Chesson All The Chips That Fit 557 Tom Lyon, Joseph Skudlarek, Sun Microsystems The Hideous Name 563 Rob Pike, P. J. Weinberger, AT&T Bell Laboratories Who Answers Your Telephone When You're in the Information Age? 569 Harold A. Cross, Rural Computing Brian E. Redman, Bell Communications Research COMPILER OPTIMIZATION Friday (2:00 3:30) Chair: To Be Announced A Portable Intermediate Code Optimizer for C 577 Thomas J. Kelley and Allen Mclntosh, HCR A Portable Reference Optimizer for the System V Loader 591 Tracy Tims, HCR Improving the Performance of Scientific Applications on a Super-Micro Using A Custom Floating Point Processor and An Optimizing Compiler 597 Curt Gridley, Masscomp