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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next prev parent 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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