Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:16:06 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> 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: <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30626.1318061464@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <CACqU3MVgVUxe%2BMtaf9wq6oz5=PZAq=Sx-ihyQh1GyjD3PXmjhQ@mail.gmail.com> <30626.1318061464@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Hi, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > 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. > 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... This should never have been present in a release kernel. - Arnaud
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