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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!uop!usenet From: hughes@napa.csee.usf.edu (Ken Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Floating point exceptions hang process Date: 3 May 1993 17:33:05 GMT Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of the Pacific Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s3l0h$j7n@unix1.cc.uop.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: napa.eng.uop.edu I've never seen this problem mentioned directly so I'll ask if anyone else has seen it. Whenever I execute a operation that generates a floating point exception (divide by zero, log with negative argument, etc) the process will hang. No error message is generated, no trap happens, nothing. I can kill the process with control-c and the rest of the system is happy. This happens on two machines (both 486DX, 33MHz) running any kernel from the generic release through patchkit 0.2 kernels. This is needless to say annoying. Any clues out there? Ken -- Ken Hughes | "I can't believe this is my life; (hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu) | I'm going to have to send my SAT FT-Ph D candidate, PT-ex-sysadm | scores to San Quentin instead of University of South Florida | Stanford..." _Heathers_