Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel_at_buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes: > >>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: >> >>>BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently >>>in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a >>>warning at least? >> >>I actually agree with this. It's so frustrating to not be able to do >>what you want to do as root. > > > I tend to belive in sensible safety features. Forcing people who > do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism > first doesn't strike me as a bad idea. > > Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold > armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets. > It would likely be less frustrating if there was an obvious mesage printed to the console that told the root user how to remove the safety mechanism. ScottReceived on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 13:27:31 UTC
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