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Date:      Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:45:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: kern_mib.c:int securelevel = -1;
Message-ID:  <199608100845.KAA07623@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960810142136.26799A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from Michael Hancock at "Aug 10, 96 02:28:29 pm"

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As Michael Hancock wrote:

> Please use INSECURE to be consistent with BSD/OS and NetBSD.  I'm for
> names in code that are black and white.  The man pages can describe the
> gray areas in the bugs or caveats section.

...and make it a default option.  Otherwise, people with typical
workstations running Xservers will jump at us.  The comment in LINT
and GENERIC _must_ mention this, or the amount of support replies we
have to send out will increase drastically.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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