alambert

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   by alambert 9y ago

   The beginner wants to disable optimizations, so he can better understand the kernel behavior by stepping through it in a debugger; he's told this isn't possible. Compare this with the availability of checked builds of Windows comp
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   by alambert 9y ago

   PF_KEYv2's difficult interface definitely isn't a Linux issue. But PF_KEYv2's limited error reporting means that understanding what's going wrong requires kernel debugging. The difficulty of kernel debugging is a Lin
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   by alambert 9y ago

   I agree! For Windows, getting symbols was trivial: you just pointed your debugger to the publicly-available symbol server[1]. You can see this attitude continuing in [2]: a beginner is warned away from using a debugger to understand the ker
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   Kernel debugging for newbies(alexlambert.com)

   117 points by alambert 9y ago|29 comments
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   Otto: unifying deployment, application management, and platform management(blog.spindle.com)

   13 points by alambert 13y ago|0 comments