From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18465 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2003 03:17:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Oct 2003 03:17:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 10090 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2003 03:16:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6665 Received: (qmail 10062 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2003 03:16:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Oct 2003 03:16:46 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [199.67.51.101] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 9 Oct 2003 3:16:45 -0000 Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h993Gi1o062704; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:16:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:16:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Joakim Ryden Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Floating point anyone? Message-ID: <20031009031644.GC63777@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200310081634.42308.jryden@thebox.our-own.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310081634.42308.jryden@thebox.our-own.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i 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@allantgroup.com