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Subject: Re: [RFQ] make witness panic an option
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On 16 November 2012 00:26, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:

> Adding another option to tag asserts so that it was sort of like:
>
> KASSERT((cond, section, "string")); would be interesting, then you could
> turn KASSERTS on based on "vfs" or possibly file by file.

That's orthogonal to my developer-focused request. I'm also a big fan
of correctly using asserts/panics - ie, asserts shouldn't replace
correct error handling.
(Yes, I'm guilty of this in ath(4), but I have plans soon to rectify this.)



Adrian