Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:11:04 +0000
In message <CACqU3MVgVUxe+Mtaf9wq6oz5=PZAq=Sx-ihyQh1GyjD3PXmjhQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
, Arnaud Lacombe writes:

>If you expose a setting, you cannot rely on a user not to use it even
>if you told him not to. As long as this is exposed and usable, it will
>be used, even more when it was documented.

This is clearly marked as a debug tool, the only bug here, is that people
tell users to abuse it in the documentation.

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Received on Sat Oct 08 2011 - 06:11:07 UTC

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