Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:52:40 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags Message-ID: <52963.1318092760@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:16:06 -0400." <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w@mail.gmail.com> , Arnaud Lacombe writes: >User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a >hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security >issue here... There is a big difference between having an emergency hatch that gives you a chance to escape certain death by running across a shooting range, and on posting a sign telling people to use it as a short-cut. debugflags&16 has legitimate uses if you know exactly what kind of shitty situation you are in, and it should absolutely be in the release kernel for that reason. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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