PANIC(9) BSD Kernel Manual PANIC(9)
panic - Bring down system on fatal error
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/systm.h>
void
panic(const char *fmt, ...);
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 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.
The panic() function does not return.
printf(3), boot(9), printf(9)
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