Re: a small doubt

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
08 Oct 1999 17:46:16 +0200


Bret Indrelee <bindrelee@sbs-cp.com> writes:

|> What is wrong with just using the existing panic() from kernel.h?
|>
|> If there is information that panic() doesn't save which you would get with
|> an OOPS message, then that is a problem with panic.

A panic() is a point of no return. After an OOPS the kernel often can
continue after it has killed the offending task.

Andreas.

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