D-space, 227

DACL (see Discretionary ACL)

Daemon, 89, 369, 724

• Linux, 724

• printer, 119

DAG (see Directed Acyclic Graph)

Dalvik, Android, 796, 798, 802, 807, 809

Dalvik executable, 807

Dangling pointer, 648

Darwin, Charles, 47

Data confidentiality, 608

Data execution prevention, 652–653, 653

• Windows, 1027

Data paradigm, 1050–1051

Data rate for devices, 339

Data segment, 56, 744

Datagram service, 586

DAX (see Direct Access for files)

DDA (see Discrete Device Assignment)

Deadlock, 437–471

• communication, 465–466

• conditions, 445

• introduction, 444–445

• ostrich algorithm, 447–449

• resource, 445

Deadlock avoidance, 455–461

• banker’s algorithm, 458–461

Deadlock detection

• multiple types of resources, 451–454

• single type of resource, 449–451

Deadlock modeling, 445–447

Deadlock prevention, 461–464

• attacking mutual-exclusion, 461

• attacking the circular wait, 463–464

• attacking the hold-and-wait, 462

• attacking the no-preemption, 462

Deadlock recovery, 454–455

DebugPortHandle, Windows, 885

Deduplication, 225, 322

• Linux, 972

• memory, 501

• virtual machine, 497

Default data stream, NT file system, 994

Defense-in-depth, Windows, 1031

Deferred procedure call, Windows, 901–903

Defragmenting a disk, 320–321

Degree of multiprogramming, 96

Delete system call, 269, 277

DeleteAce Win32 call, 1023

Demand paging, 214

Denial-of-service attack, 608

Dentry, 775

DEP (see Data Execution Prevention)

Design goals, Android, 800–801

Design issues for paging, 221–232

Design principles, 1065–1070

• brute force, 1069

• check for errors first, 1070

• hiding the hardware, 1065–1067

• indirection, 1067–1068

• orthogonality, 1058–1059

• reentrancy, 1069

• reusability, 1068

Desktop environment, 405

Device context, 413

Device controller, 338, 338–340

Device domain, 499–500

Device driver, 30, 359–362, 984

• user-mode, 342

• Windows, 910

Device independence, 352

Device I/O, Hyper-V, 1007–1010

Device isolation, 499

Device object, 886

Device pass through, 499

Device stack, Windows, 910, 987–989

Device-independent bitmap, 416

Device-independent block size, 368

Device-independent input/output software, 362–368

DEX (see Dalvik Executable)

DFSS (see Dynamic Fair-Share Scheduling)

Diameter, interconnection, 559

DIB (see Device-Independent Bitmap)

Die, chip, 537

Digital Research, 16

Digital rights management, 896

Digital signature, 635–636

Dining philosophers problem, 440–444

Direct access for file, 764

Direct map, Windows, 1009

Direct media interface, 34

Direct memory access, 32, 344–347, 356–357

• remote, 564–565

Directed acyclic graph, 288

Directory, 42, 264, 272–278

Directory hierarchy, 591

Directory management system calls, 58–59, 277

Directory operation, 277–278

Directory system, hierarchical, 273–274

• single-level, 272–273

Directory-based multiprocessor, 535

Dirty bit, 199

Disabling interrupts, 121–123

Disco, 480, 507

Discrete device assignment, Hyper-V, 1008

Discretionary access control, 629

Disk, magnetic, 370–381

Disk arm scheduling algorithm, 375–379

Disk block size, 302–303

Disk blocks, managing free, 303–306

Disk controller cache, 378

Disk defragmentaion, 320–321

Disk driver, 4

Disk error handling, 379–381

Disk formatting, 372–375

Disk operating system, 16

Disk quota, 306–307

Disk recalibration, 380–381

Disk scheduling, 376–377

• elevator algorithm, 377

• first-come first-served, 376

• shortest seek first, 376

Disk storage, 370–390

Disk-space management, 301–303

Dispatcher, 100

Dispatcher header, 904

Dispatcher object, 901, 904

• Windows, 904–905

Distributed operating system, 18

Distributed shared memory, 571–575

• false sharing, 574

• replicated, 572

• sequential consistency, 575

Distributed system, 579–598

• hardware, 581–584

DLL (see Dynamic-Link Library)

DMA (see Direct Memory Access)

DMI (see Direct Media Interface)

DNS (see Domain Name System)

Docker, 481, 506

Document-based middleware, 588–590

Domain 0, 499

Domain name system, 588

Don’t hide power, 1052

DOS (see Disk Operating System)

Double buffering, 365

Double fetch vulnerability, 668

Double indirect block, 328, 781

Double interleaved disk, 374

Double torus, 559

Down system call, 770, 1077

Down Win32 call, 938, 945

DPC (see Deferred Procedure Call)

DPC storm, 902

DPC watchdog, 902

Draper, John, 614

Drive-by-download, 647

Driver object, 886

Driver signing, 689

Driver verifier, 985

Driver-kernel interface, 762

DSM (see Distributed Shared Memory)

Dual-use technology, 615

Dump, file system, 307–312

DuplicateHandle Win32 call, 938

Dynamic binary translation, 512

Dynamic disk, Windows, 980

Dynamic fair-share scheduling, Windows, 950

Dynamic link library, 230, 876

Dynamic link library 926–928

Dynamic relocation, 184–185

Dynamic vs. static structures, 1062–1063

Dynamic-link library, 64