1*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $NetBSD: panic.9,v 1.2 1996/10/09 17:20:04 explorer Exp $ 2*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 3*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Michael Graff. 4*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" All rights reserved. 5*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 6*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" are met: 9*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" This product includes software developed by Michael Graff 17*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" for the NetBSD Project. 18*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 20*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 21*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 32*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man9/panic.9,v 1.4.2.4 2001/12/17 11:30:18 ru Exp $ 33*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man9/panic.9,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:37:01 dillon Exp $ 34*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 35*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dd August 11, 1995 36*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dt PANIC 9 37*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Os 38*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh NAME 39*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm panic 40*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nd bring down system on fatal error 41*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SYNOPSIS 42*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.In sys/param.h 43*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Ft void 44*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fn panic "const char *fmt" ... 45*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh DESCRIPTION 46*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe 47*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fn panic 48*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinofunction terminates the running system. The message 49*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fa fmt 50*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois a 51*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr printf 3 52*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinostyle format string. The message is printed to the console and the location 53*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fa panicstr 54*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois set to the address of the message text for retrieval from the OS 55*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinocore dump. 56*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pp 57*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIf the kernel debugger is installed control is passed to it, otherwise 58*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoan attempt to save a core dump of the OS to a configured dump device 59*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois made. 60*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pp 61*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIf 62*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fn panic 63*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois called twice (from the disk sync routines, for example) the system is 64*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinorebooted without syncing the disks. 65*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh RETURN VALUES 66*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe 67*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fn panic 68*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinofunction does not return. 69