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Subject: Re: [RFQ] make witness panic an option
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On 15 November 2012 10:01, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I think that your worries are focused more around the latter than the
> former, which can be easilly shut down already today.
>
> And frankly I will never be in favor of a patch that automatically
> shutdowns lock assertion. Please patch your local code to do so but
> don't add any generic/upstream/all-around mechanism for that.

Would a comprimise be ok? Ie, if I pushed everything but the sysctl
upstream, and just defaulted it to always panic?

That way my diff wouldn't have to be a big thing; I'd just add the sysctl.


adrian