In this post we explore double faults in detail. We also set up an Interrupt Stack Table to catch double faults on a separate kernel stack. This way, we can completely prevent triple faults, even on kernel stack overflow.

This is part 3 of the Great Rust Web Experiment. See Part 1 about Iron, and Part 2 about Nickel, and how it compares to Iron. In short, I’ve built the same r...

Goal: Replace Gecko’s XML parser, libexpat, with a Rust-based XML parser Firefox currently uses an old, trimmed down, and slightly modified version of libexpat, a library written in C, to sup… (more…)

When people talk about code coverage, they’re referring to metrics which show how much of their source code is “covered” by their tests. Now covering the code is of course only the first step, the tests actually have to test the functionality in a meani... (more…)

Arrays in Rust are a second-class citizens, actually I think they don't even have their visas. I hear them laughing at me when I try to use them. (more…)