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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Ludootje <ludootje@linux.be>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's an OOPS
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:05:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308140558.GA22327@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047131229.658.236.camel@libranet>

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:47:10PM +0100, Ludootje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading LKML for a few weeks now to understand Linux
> development better, and there's one thing I just can't understand:
> what's an OOPS? What does it stand for, what is it?

An oops is a lot like a segmentation fault for a userspace program. It
indicates the kernel tried to access memory that doesn't exist, for example.

Regards,

bert

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-08 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-08 13:47 what's an OOPS Ludootje
2003-03-08 14:05 ` bert hubert [this message]
2003-03-08 14:20 ` John Bradford
2003-03-08 16:01   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-03-08 16:54     ` John Bradford
2003-03-08 18:37       ` Ludootje

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