Hi, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > 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. > User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security issue here... This should never have been present in a release kernel. - ArnaudReceived on Sat Oct 08 2011 - 14:16:08 UTC
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