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Daemon calls kill -9 on children (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Back in the early 2000s (when Apple Minis were introduced) there was a rare system error that you could get that ended in a wall of script/code. What has stuck with me to this day was the screen ended on the line "panic: we are hanging here".

Never did puzzle that out.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Panic is a function Unix (or Linux?) kernel calls when it can't handle an error

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Afaik it's the "bsod" of *nix systems

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