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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:51:42 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel traps on boot.. 
Message-ID:  <199810142051.NAA11114@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:33:18 -0700 
 David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote:

 >    Kernel printf's spewing on the console are a pretty annoying way to
 > encourage someone to fix the problem. I think I'd rather see that than a
 > panic.

Panics are even more annoying.  And they acually force you to fix them.

Just doing printfs for broken kernel code only encourages laziness.

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