Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS ...

It’s difficult to convey in an era when a UNIX-like operating system sits in your pocket, how there was once a time when the mere word was enough to convey an aura of immense computing power.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old.

After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.… The recovered code runs on a PDP ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say.