PANIC(9) PANIC(9)
NAME
panic - abandon hope, all ye who enter here
SYNOPSIS
void panic(char *fmt, ...)
DESCRIPTION
Panic writes a message to the console and causes the system
to give up the host. It enables interrupts, dumps the ker-
nel stack, and halts the current processor; if more than
one, others will gradually come to a halt. Depending on
configuration settings, the platform-dependent exit might
reboot the system. The format fmt and associated arguments
are the same as those for print(9). Panic adds a prefix
`panic: ' and a trailing newline.
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