PANIC(9) OpenBSD Kernel 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 makes the OpenBSD system terminate. The message fmt
is a printf(9) style format string. The message is printed to the
console and the location pointed to by the global char pointer 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 is made to save a core dump of the OS to a configured dump
device.
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.
SEE ALSOprintf(3), boot(9), printf(9)OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9