Linus: I Don’t Like Debuggers (2000)

Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds Aivazian [email protected]
Subject: Re: Availability of kdb

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

very nice monologue, thanks. I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to
think about their problem on a different level than with a debugger. But I’m not going to help you use
one, and I wuld frankly prefer people not to use kernel debuggers that
much.

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