NAME

       panic — bring down system on fatal error

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <sys/systm.h>

       void
       panic(const char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION

       The  panic() 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

       The panic() function does not return.

Debian                                           August 11, 1995                                        PANIC(9)