From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 10 01:54:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA23565 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23560 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23648 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:50:56 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA07284 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:50:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA07623 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:45:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608100845.KAA07623@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kern_mib.c:int securelevel = -1; To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:45:25 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Aug 10, 96 02:28:29 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > Please use INSECURE to be consistent with BSD/OS and NetBSD. I'm for > names in code that are black and white. The man pages can describe the > gray areas in the bugs or caveats section. ...and make it a default option. Otherwise, people with typical workstations running Xservers will jump at us. The comment in LINT and GENERIC _must_ mention this, or the amount of support replies we have to send out will increase drastically. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)