Rigour is good for you and feasible: reflections on formal treatments of C and UDP sockets

Rigour is good for you and feasible: reflections on formal treatments of C and UDP sockets (2002)

by Michael Norrish , Peter Sewell , Keith Wansbrough

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TITLE	Rigour is good for you and feasible: reflections on formal treatments of C and UDP sockets	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Michael Norrish	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Peter Sewell	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Keith Wansbrough	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	Introduction We summarise two projects that formalised complex real world systems: UDP and its sockets API, and the C programming language. We describe their goals and the techniques used in both. We conclude by discussing how such techniques might be applied to other system software and by describing the benefits this may bring. 2. Specifying UDP and the sockets API We recently formalised a substantial behavioural specification, that for the Internet protocol UDP, as presented to programmers through the sockets interface [12, 10, 1, 5, 11]. Our aim was to make clear the behavioural subtleties of the widely used -- but poorly documented -- sockets API. This clarification of the interface should ease the production of robust software that uses it. The specification was necessarily developed post hoc; we developed it by referring to existing documentation (RFCs and source code, for example), and by experimentally checking existing implementations, using automated tools. We produced th	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	2002	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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