"s/stable/broken/g"

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 26 14:08:41 PDT 2008


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Peter Much wrote:
>> And the party continues... When starting my usual environment, there 
>> is already the next pagefault kernel panic!
>>
>> Tracking it down... it's the "type" keyword in devfs rules. According
>> to the manpage, support for this was _not_ withdrawn. But actually, 
>> entering something like
>>     devfs rule apply type tape WHATEVER
>> crashes the system.
> 
> Software always has bugs, and it is a mistake to think that the "stable" 
> designation does not mean "has no bugs".

One too many negatives in that sentence.

Kris


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