> There are some people who would prefer the purity of "Panic" on a memory corruption/error, If the OS will encounter memory corruption, it cannot reliably do

> There are some people who would prefer the purity of "Panic" on a memory corruption/error, If the OS will encounter memory corruption, it cannot reliably do anything but restart. Anything else will risk further corruption and will make any investigation more difficult and effects more distant from the cause. > and there are some people who are operating space craft and safety critical systems where a "Panic" could lose lives. So could erratic behaviour.