aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Oct 8 08:11:07 UTC 2011
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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