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International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software

ISOTAS 1996: Object Technologies for Advanced Software pp 275–286Cite as

A metaobject protocol for controlling file cache management

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a metaobject protocol (MOP) for controlling file buffer caches in operating systems. The MOP exposes an abstraction of the file cache machinery that is an inherent part of every file system implementation, and thereby allows applications to control cache management decisions for the files that they use. Safety and protection are preserved by carefully designing the MOP so that the operating system retains control both over which applications may access data for each file, and how global resource allocation decisions are made.

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    Chris Maeda

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Kokichi Futatsugi Satoshi Matsuoka

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Maeda, C. (1996). A metaobject protocol for controlling file cache management. In: Futatsugi, K., Matsuoka, S. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60954-7_56

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