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Reverse engineers pretty much know how everything in NT works. Msft publishes enough symbols that it's even possible to automatically decompile much of the code
by neerajsi 9y ago
Reverse engineers pretty much know how everything in NT works. Msft publishes enough symbols that it's even possible to automatically decompile much of the code. Something like page table splitting would be obvious.
- bhouston 9y agoAnd the source of an older version of NT leaked a while back.
- nikanj 9y agoI think that was NT 4. I don’t think there’s much of that 20-year old code left in the kernel.
- ams6110 9y agoI'd actually be surprised if there weren't quite a bit of it still in the kernel.
- wasx 9y agoActually given the horror stories that have been told about the windows source code over the years, I'd be very, very surprised if there wasn't 20 year old code in a lot of places. Hell there's still 20 year old code running in the Linux kernel
- PyComfy 9y agoThe source code of the kernel of Windows server 2003 and Windows XP Pro x64 was available to universities for education purposes. Someone leaked the code on internet years ago which is now everywhere on github (search WRK-v1.2). The code doesn't include the ntfs module. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412091908/http://www.facultyresourcecenter.com:80/curriculum/pfv.aspx?ID=7366&c1=en-us&c2=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20120412091908/http://www.facult...
- haimez 9y agoYou would be very surprised.