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by SigmundA 1926 days ago
A user-land program cannot be at fault for a kernel panic, that is the kernels fault, always.
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ridiculous_fish 1926 days ago
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.
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saagarjha 1926 days ago
True, but a third-party program shouldn’t really be able to do this, at least not easily.
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