James Molloy's Tutorial Known Bugs: Difference between revisions

Several sources - including this Wiki - point to [http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/ James Molloy's Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS] Tutorial as a starting point. This is wellfine, but the tutorial has some well-known weak points that cause trouble for people again and again. It's not uncommon that well-established members traced back mysterious bugs to early parts of their operating systems based on this tutorial. Nonetheless, it's one of the best introductory tutorials out there even if it has the occasional landmine. This article is meant to preempt issues arising from following the tutorial and to aid those that have encountered such problems. It is generally recommended to be sceptical of its advise on how to design your kernel and compare its information against this wiki. Some issues are quite subtle and only experts will recognize them.