What is a user-mode failure? Windows 7 Beta Data


A failure is chosen based on analysis of the cab by !analyze, a debugger extension that is part of the Debugging Tools For Windows. A Failure is a unique combination of Symbol, Problem Class and Exception code. The failure may aggregate multiple Buckets (EventID’s). The results of the analysis can be dependent on the availability of symbols (PDB files) for the modules related to the failure.

Note: Since we Microsoft does not have private symbols for debugging memory dump files failures are based on the best available analysis of memory dump files. In order to get the most accurate depiction of what the failure is using private symbols in debugging will quickly show where the precise origin of a failure occurs.

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