On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 tytso@valinux.com wrote:
>It adds one conditional inside a rare 'if' case, so it's not a
>performance issue, and it means that the next time something like this
>happens, the machine will cleanly panic, and leave a very easy to
>understand indication of what went wrong.
I don't like a panic for a thing that we can recover gracefully and
allowing the user to also see the message even if he was running under X 8).
Andrea
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