> On Dec 28, 2015, at 02:17, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

...

> It is not unreasonable to panic when such tests fail, just like for other
> settings of unreasonable values.  Only the superuser can make them, and
> the superuser should know better than to run them on production systems.

On a development system, this is perfectly reasonable. However, on systems in 
production, dying on asserts or panicking when unexpected input is encountered 
instead of erroring out appropriately is not ideal: it causes unnecessary 
downtime and can confuse others (customers, lower level admins) who are not 
fully aware of how UNIX and FreeBSD works (and in turn generate support calls 
and bug reports).

Thanks,
-NGie
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