On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 1. I think oops and panic are both some way to deal with errors occurs >>> in kernel space. Is there any relationship between them? >> AFAIK both are same. >>> > > Really? I thought "oops" would be generated for critical errors like > processor exceptions etc when a kernel CANNOT proceed further in a > reliable way...whereas a "panic" was _artificially_ induced (?), eg: a > missing 'init' to run (very common error, which I'm sure most of us > here would've experienced :)), and the kernel _may_ proceed further > with some reliability Thanks for this but what i meant was that some developers uses oops and panic term interchangeably. Technically you are right. > > Wikipedia, has a decent explanation of it: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_oops > > HTH, > -mandeep > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
