Inside Windows® Debugging

Part 1. A Bit of Background

Chapter 1

One of my esteemed mentors at Microsoft once told me the following story. He came back home one night to be greeted by a dismayed look on his wife’s face. Her cherished wedding ring had just vanished down the bathroom sink drain and she was completely stumped. For all she knew, the wedding ring might very well have been in the ocean by the time they were having that conversation. To her, anything beyond the drain plug was a black box. My mentor, using the slight advantage of plumbing knowledge he had over his wife, knew about those nifty structures called “sink traps,” which are usually J-shaped pipes located just beneath the sink. These are intended to “trap” a little bit of water and prevent sewer gas from ...