Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:54:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Message-ID: <199810150054.RAA05491@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:51:42 PDT." <199810142051.NAA11114@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:33:18 -0700 > David Greenman <dg@root.com> 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
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