Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:41:30 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r292777 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/kern Message-ID: <2CA74F95-00A0-4453-847E-0C6C59B57021@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151228200006.Q2819@besplex.bde.org> References: <201512271537.tBRFb7nN095297@repo.freebsd.org> <1451236237.1369.9.camel@freebsd.org> <20151228083418.B1014@besplex.bde.org> <20151228081313.GM3625@kib.kiev.ua> <20151228200006.Q2819@besplex.bde.org>
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> On Dec 28, 2015, at 02:17, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: ... > It is not unreasonable to panic when such tests fail, just like for other > settings of unreasonable values. Only the superuser can make them, and > the superuser should know better than to run them on production systems. On a development system, this is perfectly reasonable. However, on systems i= n production, dying on asserts or panicking when unexpected input is encount= ered instead of erroring out appropriately is not ideal: it causes unnecessa= ry downtime and can confuse others (customers, lower level admins) who are n= ot fully aware of how UNIX and FreeBSD works (and in turn generate support c= alls and bug reports). Thanks, -NGie=
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