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Re:eBPF on Windows by pjmlp on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:25PM (#27110479)
I do mostly Windows, and given the option would rather keep doing so, however you just reminded me of the "fun" of writing ISAPI extensions on Windows 2000.

For those unaware of it, IIS used to execute fully on kernel level, so ISAPI extensions were comparable to device drivers, which meant any programming error would just kill the kernel, thus requiring a reboot.

So tracking down memory corruption issues on ISAPI extensions was bound to have a countless amount of reboots during the work day.

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Re:eBPF on Windows by voidfunc on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:09PM (#27112568)
Goodness, who decided that was a good idea?!
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Re:eBPF on Windows by EvanAnderson on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:37PM (#27112770)
Thr ISAPI modules don't run in kernel mode, but they're in-process with IIS (back in W2K) and it's a bit fraught.

I assumed that kernel-mode HTTP service was an answer by Microsoft to the "Tux" web server: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server

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