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SigmundA
5y ago
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A user-land program cannot be at fault for a kernel panic, that is the kernels fault, always.
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ridiculous_fish
5y ago
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xnu will panic if it doesn't receive periodic check-ins from userspace. For example if WindowServer hangs, then the kernel may deliberately panic so that the system reboots. See man watchdogd for (a tiny bit) more.
saagarjha
5y ago
True, but a third-party program shouldn’t really be able to do this, at least not easily.
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