Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...

Embedded software applications face many challenges that are not present on desktop computers. A device with a dedicated function is not generally regarded as a computer, even if a significant part of ...

As the dust begins to settle on the Heartbleed bug, developers in the open source community are digging deeper into what really went wrong in OpenSSL to cause the encryption software to be exposed to ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...