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In this chapter, you will use the pattern approach to diagnose and debug a common problem type in the Windows operating system: resource leaks.
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When installing Python, you also need to select debug symbol files to have meaningful stack traces.
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I may have a bug in WinDbg !handle extension version I used at the time of this writing or its incompatibility with the possible Windows handle table changes as this version of the debugger doesn’t show Thread handle type and there are inconsistencies in the !htrace WinDbg command output.
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For Linux, the Valgrind tool can be used for tracing resource handles like file descriptors, for example, https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/01/09/how-use-valgrind-track-file-descriptors.
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Vostokov, D. (2024). Case Study: Resource Leaks. In: Python Debugging for AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9745-2_11
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