Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:19:28 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> To: KATO Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, michaelh@cet.co.jp, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/union union_vnops.c Message-ID: <19970417011928.63796@usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199704161222.VAA15848@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>; from KATO Takenori on Wed Apr 16 21:21:59 EST 1997 References: <199704160851.SAA09685@plum.cyber.com.au> <199704161222.VAA15848@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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On Wed Apr 16 21:21:59 EST 1997, KATO Takenori writes: > Kernel hackers may prefer panic to inter-process hang because panic > and stack trace could help to find problems. Most users may prefer > inter-process hang to panic because they can obtain a chance to sync > filesystems. > > I think that we should chose one of them as the case may be. Actually, I thought this is the sort of thing that the FAILSAFE compile option was originally intended to do. Is it still only used by the ncr driver, or has it been removed completely? Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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