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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
May. 11, 2011
Corneliu I. Lupu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gerald Francis Maffeo, Woodinville, WA (US);
Michael Hans Krause, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephan A. Doll, Seattle, WA (US);
Vamshidhar R. Kommineni, Seattle, WA (US);
William Hunter Hudson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Corneliu I. Lupu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gerald Francis Maffeo, Woodinville, WA (US);
Michael Hans Krause, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephan A. Doll, Seattle, WA (US);
Vamshidhar R. Kommineni, Seattle, WA (US);
William Hunter Hudson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An application programming interface (API) that leverages operating system instrumentation to provide a chain of threads and processes may alleviate some debugging complications. Specifically, the chain may start with the first thread in the process that experienced the original failure and end with the last thread upon which the first thread directly or indirectly depends. The API may aid debugging efforts by classifying all threads related or dependent upon an original failed thread into specific categories of failures, requesting further information from the originating OS concerning specific failed threads, and using that information to debug the failed application or process more thoroughly.