On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robe > rt Watson writes: > > >With new userland code coming into -CURRENT at a rapid rate, it may be > >useful in -CURRENT for developers. For DPs, probably not. > > I don't have to tell you what the 'D' in 'DP' means, right ? :-) > > Robert, I can only say that I disagree 100% with you. > > In principle because I think only -RELEASE should not have J, and I > think even -RELEASE should have A. > > In practice I think this is completely l00ney, considering what we have > done in the kernel, worrying about AJ related false hits is sooo totally > down in the noise. A few weeks ago, I would have believed you. Except that using -J was a workaround recommended in a recent security advisory--prior to recommending it, I ran it on a server of mine for a few days. You'd be surprised how many random applications keel over, and the performance impact it has for some specific types of applications. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
