NAME
panic —
bring down system on fatal
error
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/systm.h>
void
panic(const
char *fmt,
...);
void
vpanic(const
char *fmt, va_list
ap);
DESCRIPTION
Thepanic()
and
vpanic()
functions terminate 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.