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DateSat, 2 Sep 2000 23:55:44 +0200
From"Andi Kleen" <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:34:47PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> KDB is putrid.  Can it debug double faults?  NO.  Can it debug complex
> register and numeric evaluation statements like IF ((EAX == 1) &&
> [ESP-4] == 0x3000)?  NO.  Can it debug nested task gate exceptions? 

remote gdb does that fine.

I've never seen a nested task gate on Linux... 

> NO.  Can it debug SMP locks races?  NO.  Can it debug priority inversion
> problems in sleep locks?  NO.

Given.  Priority inversion does not seem to be a big problem in Linux though
(kernel threads usually run at the same priority, with the only higher
priority being interrupts/bhs). Also the sleep locking seems to be generally
simple enough that it is not a problem for user processes. 

> Can the Kernel debugger in NetWare?  YES.  Can the Kernel Debugger in
> NT?  YES.  

I guess they need it ;) 

-Andi
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