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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:54:45 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel traps on boot.. 
Message-ID:  <199810150054.RAA05491@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:51:42 PDT." <199810142051.NAA11114@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> 

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>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:33:18 -0700 
> David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote:
>
> >    Kernel printf's spewing on the console are a pretty annoying way to
> > encourage someone to fix the problem. I think I'd rather see that than a
> > panic.
>
>Panics are even more annoying.  And they acually force you to fix them.
>
>Just doing printfs for broken kernel code only encourages laziness.

   Well, that might be fine for a developer, but it sure doesn't help end
users. We *are* trying to provide a production system after all. :-)
(I guess der Mouse will never want to use FreeBSD...)

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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