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PANIC(9)	       FreeBSD Kernel Developer's 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 terminates 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.

FreeBSD	10.3			August 11, 1995			  FreeBSD 10.3
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES

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