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by 64bitbrain 3812 days ago
Great article! I had a similar experience, a Java programmer turned Linux Kernel programmer. The first think I remember doing was debugging a kernel panic using crash. It is not doubt challenging for Java/PHP programmers to debug C coredumps/KP, when there is pointer reference involved. But at the same time I learned a lot, specially memory management.