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PART 6. Fun with Crash Dumps > Don't Name Your Driver a "Missile"

Don't Name Your Driver a "Missile"

Don't give your modules and build folders funny names. When your application or sys-tem crashes people will laugh. Recently we had seen a driver build path (PDB paths, !dh command) involving words "dust", "devil" and "missile". A missile driver may sound like a winner against competitors but looks funny in a crash dump WinDbg output. Another case was a module having words "screw" and "driver" in Imv command output.

Another piece of advice is not to name your modules "fault tolerant". This looks funny on crash stacks:


  

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