[ros-kernel] PipeSpy

Robert Köpferl rob at koepferl.de
Wed Feb 11 01:33:31 CET 2004


Interesting article.
I started putting such links on the wiki
http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/roswiki?DesignPapers
Maybe we should open a new page Knowledge?

KJK::Hyperion schrieb:

> At 09.14 09/02/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> I have just committed a named pipe spy program called PipeSpy, written 
>> by Skywing.  It is intended to be used to help understand the Windows 
>> remote kernel debugging protocol, so that ReactOS can implement it 
>> some day.
> 
> 
> kd protocol? ask and you shall receive. I have good news and bad news, 
> however. The good news is another article from our Cuban hero Albert 
> Yulien Almeida - you may remember him for the best article about APCs 
> ever written. Well, he did it again! this time he has documented most of 
> the KD protocol and KD stub internals:
> 
> <http://www.vsj.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=265>
> 
> The rest of the protocol is sort-of-documented in windbgkd.h, from the 
> Windows 2000 DDK (not available in later versions). And now the bad 
> news: I've had a look at said header, and found that the KD protocol is 
> *highly* specific to the Windows NT kernel, to the point that many 
> fields in the protocol structures contain the addresses of internal and 
> obscure kernel-mode objects. KD may or may not depend on all or many of 
> them to work correctly (or at all), but my guts say it surely does 
> depend from them
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