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by ace2358 1433 days ago
That’s probably true, but sometimes you have to go one level deeper right? What happens when your debugger has crashed?
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In 8 years on the Windows team I can't recall the debugger ever crashing. If it does, you open the debugger again and reconnect to the target machine.
Heh, I wish that had ever been the case for me. Sometimes it feels like WinDbg freezes every other command. Plus, getting it to reconnect to a kd after it freezes and I kill it was such an exercise in frustration that if the target machine were my own repro box instead of a stress break remote, I would have just hard-reset the machine or (if it were a VM) restored it from snapshot.