NAME

panic − abandon hope

SYNOPSIS

voidpanic(char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION

Panic writes a message to the console and causes the system to give up the ghost.  It enables interrupts, dumps the kernel 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(10.2). Panic adds a prefix and a trailing newline.