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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 19:33:33 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
Message-ID:  <20010514193332.A85465@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010515115630.H59553@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:56:30AM %2B0930
References:  <200105132342.QAA21879@beastie.mckusick.com> <200105142334.QAA05923@usr06.primenet.com> <20010515115630.H59553@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:56:30AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:

> > Rebooting is a good idea, in any case, since you really can't
> > trust the results of programs run from a bogified FS.=20
>=20
> This sounds like a Microsoft idea.  Isn't that the reason why they
> want you to reboot if you do something like changing the default
> router?

No, they're different: one is rebooting to recover from an unknown,
catastrophic error from which it may be dangerous to continue, and the
other is rebooting to recover from a non-fatal condition which the
programmers have not bothered to handle online.

Kris
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