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 ­panic: and a trailing newline. 

Plan 9  —  June 08, 2000