$NetBSD: panic.9,v 1.2 1996/10/09 17:20:04 explorer Exp $
Copyright (c) 1996 Michael Graff.
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$FreeBSD: releng/10.2/share/man/man9/panic.9 283676 2015-05-29 04:01:39Z markj $
.Dd April 23, 2015 .Dt PANIC 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm panic .Nd bring down system on fatal error .Sh SYNOPSIS n sys/types.h n sys/systm.h .Ft void .Fn panic "const char *fmt" ... .Ft void .Fn vpanic "const char *fmt" "va_list ap" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn panic and .Fn vpanic functions terminate the running system. The message .Fa fmt is a .Xr printf 3 style format string. The message is printed to the console and the location .Fa panicstr is set to the address of the message text for retrieval from the OS core dump.
Copyright (c) 1996 Michael Graff.
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must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by Michael Graff
for the NetBSD Project.
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$FreeBSD: releng/10.2/share/man/man9/panic.9 283676 2015-05-29 04:01:39Z markj $
.Dd April 23, 2015 .Dt PANIC 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm panic .Nd bring down system on fatal error .Sh SYNOPSIS n sys/types.h n sys/systm.h .Ft void .Fn panic "const char *fmt" ... .Ft void .Fn vpanic "const char *fmt" "va_list ap" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn panic and .Fn vpanic functions terminate the running system. The message .Fa fmt is a .Xr printf 3 style format string. The message is printed to the console and the location .Fa panicstr is set to the address of the message text for retrieval from the OS core dump.
p 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.
p If .Fn panic is called twice (from the disk sync routines, for example) the system is rebooted without syncing the disks. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn panic function does not return.