Pool tracking

In tracking down a bug the last few days, I’ve encountered an annoyance in
WinDBG. The debugger extensions do not handle the PROTECTED_POOL flag on
tags. This can be exteremely annoying when you have two tags ‘tScF’ and
‘pScF’ both with PROTECTED_POOL and the debugger displays “FcS.” for both
of them!

I realize that not a lot of people use PROTECTED_POOL but since it is a
very useful debugging technique, people should be using it and WinDBG being
nice about it.


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr
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