We would like to thank Mitch Lichtenberg for helping us understand the NetBIOS, Win32, and Windows NT event-management APIs. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions.
This work was done while Gaurav Banga was a student at Rice University. It was supported in part by NSF Grants CCR-9803673 and CCR-9503098, by Texas TATP Grant 003604, and by an equipment loan by the Digital Equipment Corporation subsidiary of Compaq Computer Corporation.