PANIC(9) BSD 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
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.
BSD August 11, 1995 BSD
