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A KDL (short for Kernel Debug(ger) Land) is a term used on
Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land
Haiku, 04 February 2008.
A KDL (short for Kernel Debug(ger) Land) is a term used on BeOS
BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware.
BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users a ...
/ Haiku and possibly other operating systems for a serious kernel error which causes the computer to drop into the kernel debugger
A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some operating system kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers. A kernel debugger might be a stub implementing low-level operations, with a full-blown debugger such as GN ...
.
While a KDL brought about by a buggy driver which is not crucial, such as a filesystem driver, can be escaped from (with the command 'es'), it usually leaves the user needing to reboot.
Entering the kernel debugger
The Kernel Debug(ger) Land can also be entered onBeOS
BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware.
BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users a ...
/ Haiku at any time by pressing Alt-SysReq-D on the keyboard while the system is running.Haiku, 04 February 2008.
See also
*Screen of death
In computing, a screen of death is an informal term for a type of computer operating system error message displayed onscreen when the system has experienced a fatal system error. Computer users have dubbed these messages "screens of death" because ...
* Haiku (operating system)
* BeAPI
References
BeOS Computer errors Operating system kernels {{Comp-sci-stub