Re: Some help with kernel

John Alvord (jalvo@mbay.net)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:04:06 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Yugoslavia I worked on algorithm called "Detecting of memory leaks using
> > static pointer analysis", and I want to ask you this: Where can I find some
> > books about programming Linux kernel and fixing some mistakes in it
>
> There are two or three books on the Linux kernel. I don't think any stand out
> as being much better than the others (that I've seen so far anyway).
>
> > (especially in memory leaks). I did some source in debuggers for C language
> > and right now there are working. I want to improve more my algorithm and to
> > use it with kernel.
>
> What sort of things does your algorithm need to find ?
>
This might be a good project to work off one of the crash dump analysis
schemes. That would give a nice stable base to work out the algorithms.

john alvord

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