Monthly Archives: January 2008

Linux’s ptrace API sucks!

I love Linux, as a developer, I find the tools available suit my style of work perfectly. Sometimes the tool that I want isn't available. That's OK though, because whenever I can, I try to contribute.

I do a lot of reverse engineering work and thus the lack of anything like Ollydbg spawned off my EDB project. It's a debugger designed to focus on applications at a machine code level. This project is coming along nicely but there is one thing that I really wish I could change...ptrace sucks, and it sucks a lot.

Windows Vista doesn’t suck

First let me say that I wouldn't classify myself as a Microsoft advocate. I have a Linux box I use for my daily work and a Windows machine for both work and play. I am however, an early adopter. So pretty much as soon as I could get my hands on it, I installed Windows Vista.