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PANIC(9) | Kernel Developer's Manual | PANIC(9) |
NAME¶
panic
—
bring down system on fatal error
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<sys/systm.h>
void
panic
(const
char *fmt,
...);
DESCRIPTION¶
Thepanic
() function terminates the running
system. The message fmt is a
printf(3) style format string. The message is
printed to the console and the location
panicstr is set to the address of the message
text for retrieval from the OS core dump.
If the kernel debugger is installed control is passed to it, otherwise an
attempt to save a core dump of the OS to a configured dump device is made.
If panic
() is called twice (from the disk
sync routines, for example) the system is rebooted without syncing the disks.
RETURN VALUES¶
Thepanic
() function does not return.August 11, 1995 | Debian |