| panic 1. What does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The attempts to print a short message on the and write an image of memory into the on disk. This can be analysed later using . The kernel will then either wait in a until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic . : panic(8). 2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run. (1995-03-01) |