USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference, June 6-10, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, Conference Proceeding. USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1994, ISBN 1-880446-62-6

Off The Beaten Track

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  Jeffrey S. Haemer: A New Object-Oriented Programming Language: sh. 1-13
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  Evan Adams: The Old Man and the C. 15-26

Closing The System

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  Matt Blaze: Key Management in an Encrypting File System. 27-35
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  Marcus J. Ranum, Frederick M. Avolio: A Toolkit and Methods for Internet Firewalls. 37-44
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  Thomas Y. C. Woo, Raghuram Bindignavle, Shaowen Su, Simon S. Lam: SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming. 45-58

Under The Covers

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  Robert A. Alfieri: An Efficient Kernel-Based Implementation of POSIX Threads. 59-72
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  Andrea H. Skarra: Using OS Locking Services to Implement a DBMS: An Experience Report. 73-86
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  Jeff Bonwick: The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator. 87-98

File Systems

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  Jeffrey C. Mogul: A Better Update Policy. 99-111
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  Morgan Clark, Stephen Rago: The Desktop File System. 113-124
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  Ken Shirriff, John K. Ousterhout: Sawmill: A High-Bandwidth Logging File System. 125-136

The Network Strikes Back

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  Brian Pawlowski, Chet Juszczak, Peter Staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel, Dave Hitz: NFS Version 3: Design and Implementation. 137-152
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  Cheng-Zen Yang, Chih-Chung Chen, Yen-Jen Oyang: Clue Tables: A Distributed, Dynamic-Binding Naming Mechanism. 153-160
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  Dan Duchamp: Optimistic Lookup of Whole NFS Paths in a Single Operation. 161-169

Revenge of The File Systems

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  Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li: Application-Controlled File Caching Policies. 171-182
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  Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, Gregory Skinner, Gerald J. Popek: Resolving File Conflicts in the Ficus File System. 183-195
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  Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton: Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach. 197-207

Potpourri

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  Sape J. Mullender, Ian M. Leslie, Derek McAuley: Operating System Support for Distributed Multimedia. 209-219
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  Lincoln Stein, Andre Marquis, Robert Dredge, Mary Pat Reeve, Mark Daly, Steve Rozen, Nathan Goodman: Splicing UNIX into a Genome Mapping Laboratory. 221-229
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  Liam R. E. Quin: A Text Retrieval Package for the Unix Operating System. 231-243

Opening Closed Systems

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  Douglas Comer, John C. Lin: Probing TCP Implementations. 245-255
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  James D. Guyton, Michael F. Schwartz: Experiences with a Survey Tool for Discovering Network Time Protocol Servers. 257-265
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  Timothy W. Curry: Profiling and Tracing Dynamic Library Usage Via Interposition. 267-278

Getting Around

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  Lily B. Mummert, Mahadev Satyanarayanan: Large Granularity Cache Coherence for Intermittent Connectivity. 279-289
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  Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Gerald J. Popek, Peter L. Reiher: An Analysis of Trace Data for Predictive File Caching in Mobile Computing. 291-303
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  Trevor Blackwell, Kee Chan, Koling Chang, Thomas Charuhas, James Gwertzman, Brad Karp, H. T. Kung, David Li, Dong Lin, Robert Morris, Rob Polansky, Diane Tang, Cliff Young, John Zao: Secure Short-Cut Routing for Mobile IP. 305-316