[ale] Kernel panic

[Emil Man]

Joe,

Mind if use the fallowing as a signature on my outgoing e-mails?? That is
hilarious! GPLv3 it PLEASE!

Emil


2006/2/14, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net>:
>
>
> A kernel panic invariably printks the words "Kernel panic:" on the
> console.  The difference
> between a "panic" and an "oops" is that a panic is a situation that is
> forseen, but which we
> cannot deal with, such as not being able to free any RAM, or not being
> able to mount
> the root filesystem. Both of those are situations that kernel developers
> can forsee and
> reasonably plan for, even if the plan is just to say, "screw this, I
> give up". OTOH an
> "oops" is something really horrid that should never happen if the
> universe is in good
> health, like kernel data structures being corrupt.  In general an oops
> is more cause for
> concern than a panic, I'd say.
>
> -- JK
>
>
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