From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 31 23: 8:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from warning.follo.net (warning.follo.net [195.204.136.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D9737B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by warning.follo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA35648; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 08:07:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 08:07:54 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: janb@cs.utep.edu Cc: Boris Popov , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INVARIANTS and -current Message-ID: <20001101080754.A35516@warning.follo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from janb@cs.utep.edu on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:06:14PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:06:14PM -0700, janb@cs.utep.edu wrote: > Could someone give a quick explanation what INVARIANTS does? It adds more internal consistency checks to the kernel. This make bugs show up more promptly and in a more predictable fashion, which again makes it easier to fix the bugs. (It also makes the bugs more likely to result in a crash and less likely to result in data corruption, which IMO is good.) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message