Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:15:31 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/concat g_concat.c src/sys/geom/label g_label.c src/sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c src/sys/geom/raid3 g_raid3.c src/sys/geom/stripe g_stripe.c Message-ID: <20040826201531.GQ77326@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <66211.1093550956@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040826200728.GP77326@green.homeunix.org> <66211.1093550956@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:09:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040826200728.GP77326@green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldm > an writes: > > >> They have been very successful in this respect, and more will be > >> added as I think them up. > > > >Why in the world would you crash the machine when you don't have to? > > To prevent bogus code from being committed in the first place. > > Presumably if people can not make their code work because it panics > they will not commit it. You cannot presume testing will expose every possible state/condition. It hasn't in FreeBSD's past, but maybe you can start a revolution that makes it simple to create very complete test suites and put them into the tree along with the code being tested. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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