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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Subject: Re: ps -aux yields Floating exception Message-ID: <1992Sep15.095555.26472@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Keywords: ps FP exception Floating Lines: 42 Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen References: <1992Sep13.171803.3954@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <19228rINNorq@corax.udac.uu.se> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 09:55:55 GMT Lines: 42 In article <19228rINNorq@corax.udac.uu.se>, goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes: >In article <1992Sep13.171803.3954@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >|> >|> I recently installed a kvm.c patch (though I'm not sure if I installed >|> it completely and c orrect) - anyway, when I do a ps -aux I get >|> the header line of ps (CPU % etc..) and then in the next line a >|> Floating exception. >|> >|> Is this a known and already mentioned problem or do I have to 'patch harder' >|> :-)? > > >Did you forget to patch ps itself? > >From: davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman): > >*** /usr/src/bin/ps/ps.c.01orig Mon Jul 1 17:54:45 1991 >--- /usr/src/bin/ps/ps.c Sun Aug 9 05:35:26 1992 >*************** >*** 78,83 **** >--- 78,84 ---- > > uid_t getuid(); > char *ttyname(); >+ double getpcpu(); > > char dfmt[] = "pid tt state time command"; > char jfmt[] = "user pid ppid pgid sess jobc state tt time command"; > > >-- Yes, I forgot to apply this tiny but essential patch to ps itself. -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.