From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 10 8:27:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C752151F1 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 28894 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Mar 1999 16:26:59 +0000 (GMT) To: des@flood.ping.uio.no Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dcs@newsguy.com, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: zone: entry not free From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Mar 1999 16:53:34 +0100" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:26:59 +0100 Message-ID: <28892.921083219@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Uh, no. Invariants are for developers who want to make sure their code > is correct. There is no reason why an end user would want to build a > kernel with invariants enabled. Invariants will *not* increase data > safety. If they have any effect at all (i.e. if they actually catch a > bug), the result is a panic (whereas with a kernel without invariants, > the bug might actually go unnoticed). So for the end user it's better to have the bug go unnoticed than to get a kernel panic and notice the bug? Please tell me I'm misunder- standing something here. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message