1.
operating system What
Unix does when a critical
internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix
cannot continue. The
kernel attempts to print a short
message on the
console and write an image of memory into the
The kernel will then either wait in a
tight loop until the
machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic
reboot.
2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem
which prevents it from continuing to run.
(1995-03-01)