NetBSD Problem Report #1342

From gnats  Fri Aug 11 18:55:12 1995
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:55:09 -0400
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@owl.dol-esa.gov>
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: prototype manual page for panic
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>Number:         1342
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       prototype manual page for panic
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    explorer
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 11 19:05:02 +0000 1995
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 10 23:06:12 +0000 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 10 23:07:14 +0000 1996
>Originator:     Kenneth Stailey
>Release:        Aug 9, 1995
>Organization:
	DOL/ESA/DASM
>Environment:

System: NetBSD owl 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (OWL) #6: Fri Jul 21 09:33:23 EDT 1995 kstailey@owl:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/OWL i386


>Description:
	"panic" has no documentation
>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:

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.Dd August 11, 1995
.Dt PANIC 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm panic
.Nd Bring down system on fatal error
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/systm.h>
.Ft void
.Fn panic "const char *why"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn panic
function terminate the NetBSD system.  The message
.Fa why
is printed to the console and the location
.Fa panicstr 
is set to the address of the message text for retrival from the OS
core dump.
.Pp
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.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn panic
function does not return.
.Sh STANDARDS
???
.Sh BUGS
???
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: explorer 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 10 19:06:12 EDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
I added a (slightly different) panic.9 page. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: misc-bug-people->explorer 
Responsible-Changed-By: explorer 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 10 19:06:12 EDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I added the page. 
>Unformatted:

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