From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 14 17:57:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29715 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29690 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05491; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810150054.RAA05491@implode.root.com> To: Jason Thorpe cc: Andrew Gallatin , Chris Csanady , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:51:42 PDT." <199810142051.NAA11114@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:54:45 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:33:18 -0700 > David Greenman 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. Well, that might be fine for a developer, but it sure doesn't help end users. We *are* trying to provide a production system after all. :-) (I guess der Mouse will never want to use FreeBSD...) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message