Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 08:07:54 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: janb@cs.utep.edu Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INVARIANTS and -current Message-ID: <20001101080754.A35516@warning.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10010312205490.14609-100000@gecko>; from janb@cs.utep.edu on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:06:14PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10011011035110.22068-100000@lion.butya.kz> <Pine.GSO.4.05.10010312205490.14609-100000@gecko>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:06:14PM -0700, janb@cs.utep.edu wrote: > Could someone give a quick explanation what INVARIANTS does? It adds more internal consistency checks to the kernel. This make bugs show up more promptly and in a more predictable fashion, which again makes it easier to fix the bugs. (It also makes the bugs more likely to result in a crash and less likely to result in data corruption, which IMO is good.) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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