C preprocessor, 76

C programming language, 74–78, 705

C++, 49, 145, 648, 658

C-list, 625

C10k, 118

Cache

• disk controller, 378

• file system, 315–318

• Linux, 763

• NFS, 388–389

• snooping, 538

• thread, 100

• Windows, 977–979

• write-through, 317

Cache allocation technology, 689

Cache hit, 25

Cache line, 25, 531

Cache manager, Windows, 908

Cache slice, 539

Cache-aware PushLock, Windows, 940

Cache-coherence protocol, 531

Caching, 1075–1076

Calling convention, 51

Can we build secure systems?, 617–618

Canary

• stack, 651–652

• Windows, 1027

Canonical address, Windows, 955

Canonical mode, 398

Capability, 625–628

• cryptographic, 626

Capability list, 625

Capacitive screen, 418

Captain Crunch, 614

CAT (see Cache Allocation Technology)

Cathode ray tube, 340

CC-NUMA (see Cache-Coherent NUMA)

CDC 6600, 50

CDD (see Compatibility Definition Document)

CET (see Control-flow Enforcement Technology)

CFG (see Control Flow Guard)

CFI (see Control-Flow Integrity)

CFS (see Completely Fair Scheduler)

CFS (see Completely Fair Scheduling)

Cgroup, 505

Chain of trust, 912

Challenge-response authentication, 643–644

Character device, 338

Character special file, 45, 264, 758

Chdir system call, 54, 735, 774

Check for errors first, 1070

Checkerboarding, 243

Checkpoint, 454

Checkpointing, virtual machine migration, 504

CHERI, 931

Chief programmer team, 1080

Child partition, Hyper-V, 1003

Child process, 40

• Linux, 724

Chip multiprocessor, 538

Chmod system call, 54, 791

CHPE (see Compiled Hybrid Portable Executable)

Chromebook, 420

ChromeOS, 420

Chroot system call, 481, 504–505

CIG (see Code Integrity Guard)

Ciphertext, 632

Circuit switching, 560

Circular buffer, 365

Class driver, Windows, 910

Classical IPC problem

• dining philosophers, 440–444

• producer-consumer, 128–129

• readers and writers, 132–133

Classical thread model, 102–106

Cleaner process, LFS, 291

Cleaning policy, 225

Client, 68

• X, 404

Client library, 880

Client stub, 569

Client-server, 68

Client-server operating system, 68–69

Clock, 390–395

Clock hardware, 390–391

Clock mode, one-shot, 391

• square-wave mode, 391

Clock page replacement algorithm, 211–212

Clock software, 391–394

Clock tick, 391

Clone system call, 734, 735, 736, 1059

Close system call, 54, 269, 761, 771, 785, 786

Close Win32 call, 982, 985

Closedir system call, 277

Cloud, 479, 501–507

Cloud computing, 14

Clouds as a service, 502–503

Cluster computer, 558

Cluster of workstations, 558

Cluster size, 325

CMOS memory, 27

CMP (see Chip MultiProcessors)

CMS (see Conversational Monitor System)

Co-scheduling, 555

Code and data integrity check, 689

Code integrity guard, Windows, 1030

Code review, 680

Code signing, 692

Code-injection attack, 652

Code-reuse attack, 653–655

Coherency wall, 539

Colossus, 8

COM (see Component Object-Model)

Command interpreter, 40, 46

Command-injection attack, 666–667

Commit charge, Windows, 959

Commit limit, Windows, 958

Committed page, Windows, 958

Common criteria, 908

Common object request broker architecture, 595

Communication deadlock, 465–466

Communication software, 562–564

• multicomputer, 562–570

• user-level, 565–568

Compare&swap, Windows, 897

Comparison of threading models, 118

Compatibility definition document, 794

Compatible time sharing system, 13, 1046

Competition synchronization, 465

Compiled hybrid portable executable, 953

Completely fair scheduler, 739

Completely fair scheduling, 166

Completeness principle, 1046–1047

Component object-model, 892

Compression, file, 321, 998–999

Compression and deduplication, 321

Compute-bound process, 154

Condition variable, 141

• Windows, 939

Confidential computing, 688

Confidentiality, 608

Configuration manager, Windows, 908

Confinement problem, 669

Connect system call, 760

Connected standby, Windows, 1002

Connection-oriented service, 585

Connectionless service, 585

Consistency, file system, 312–315

Constant time, 674

Container, 73, 480, 504

• Hyper-V, 1015–1016

• Linux, 814, 818, 821

Containing security damage, Windows, 1031–1032

Content provider, Android, 828–830

Content-based page sharing, 501

Context record, Windows, 944

Context switch, 28, 154

Contiguous file allocation, 280–282

Control flow guard, Windows, 1028

Control object, 901

Control program for microcomputers, 16

Control-flow enforcement technology, 1026

Control-flow integrity, 683

Control-flow restriction, 683–685

Controlling access to resources, 618–628

Conversational monitor system, 70

Cooked mode, 398

Coordination-based middleware, 595–598

Copy on write, 54, 90, 229

• Linux, 732, 754

• Windows, 960

• virtual machine, 501, 504

CopyFile Win32 call, 889

CORBA (see Common Object Request Broker Architecture)

Corbato, Fernando, 1046

Core, 24, 537

Core image, 40

Core memory, 27

Covert channel, 669–671

COW (see Cluster Of Workstations)

COW (see Copy On Write)

CP-40, 480

CP-67, 480

CP/CMS, 480

CP/M (see Control Program for Microcomputers)

Cpuset, 506

Cracker, 614

Crash recovery with stable storage, 382–385

Creat system call, 269, 277, 770, 771, 772, 774, 785

Create Win32 call, 985

CreateEvent Win32 call, 921, 922

CreateFile Win32 call, 889, 922, 924, 1022

CreateFileMapping Win32 call, 962

CreateProcess Win32 call, 90, 883, 888, 941, 1022

CreateSemaphore Win32 call, 917, 938

Credential guard, Windows, 1025

Critical region, 121

Critical section, 121

• Windows, 939

Cron daemon, 724

Crossbar switch, 532

Crosspoint, 532

CRT (see Cathode Ray Tube)

Cryptographic hash algorithm, 635

Cryptographic key, 632

Cryptography, 616, 632–636

• digital signature, 635–636

• public-key, 634–635

• secret-key, 633–634

• symmetric-key, 633–634

CS (see Connected Standby)

CTSS (see Compatible Time Sharing System)

Cube interconnection, 559

CUDA, 540

Current allocation matrix, 452

Current directory, 275

Current priority, Windows, 945

Current virtual time, 216

Cutler, David, 17, 874, 894, 905

Cyberwarfare, 615

Cycle stealing, 346

Cylinder, 28

Cylinder skew, 372