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Re: Floating point anyone?

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joakim Ryden <jryden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Floating point anyone?
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:16:44 -0500
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In the last episode (Oct 08), Joakim Ryden said:
> Every once in a while I get:
> 
> zsh: 22124 floating point exception  top
> 
> on one of my machines. I don't really know what a floating point exception 
> truly is - can someone enlighten me?
> 
> Zsh is:
> 
> zsh 4.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

It means top crashed.  Linux's top is so crash-prone I always install
this wrapper script:

until top "$@" ; do sleep 1 ; done

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

References:
- Floating point anyone?
  - From: Joakim Ryden

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