Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:11:04 +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: <30626.1318061464@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:22:54 -0400." <CACqU3MVgVUxe%2BMtaf9wq6oz5=PZAq=Sx-ihyQh1GyjD3PXmjhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CACqU3MVgVUxe+Mtaf9wq6oz5=PZAq=Sx-ihyQh1GyjD3PXmjhQ@mail.gmail.com> , Arnaud Lacombe writes: >If you expose a setting, you cannot rely on a user not to use it even >if you told him not to. As long as this is exposed and usable, it will >be used, even more when it was documented. This is clearly marked as a debug tool, the only bug here, is that people tell users to abuse it in the documentation. -- 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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