> > However I am not technically good enough yet to fully understand > > where the > > difference lies between user-land and kernel-land... ^=5F^ All attempts > > to > > explain that difference that I have read in the past were in vain as > > far =3D > > A simplificated overview: > kernel: you're running as a thread in the kernel team - you can access > all the memory of the kernel and a crash is deadly for the whole > system. No C++, no source-level debugger. > user-land: you probably can't hurt anything. It'll do! david