question about oops and panic

[anish singh]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Mandeep Sandhu
<mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com> 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
>