From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 16 23:11:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E8437B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DF243F85 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2H7BdYl002507; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:11:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did INVARIANTS hide the geom bug? From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:12:51 PST." <3E74BEA3.6070603@myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:11:39 +0100 Message-ID: <2506.1047885099@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3E74BEA3.6070603@myrealbox.com>, walt writes: >If inclusion of INVARIANTS serves to disguise bugs in >the kernel, I wonder if kernel committers should be >using this option routinely? Please check into our current reality :-) Suggest you check what INVARIANTS actually do. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message