Re: Linux 1.3.53

Paul Matthews (paul@gw1.matthews.com)
Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:16:12 -0500

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Harvey Fishman writes:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Paul Matthews wrote:
>
> > I noticed that others have already reported problems with "Floating
> > point exception" errors on "top" and "ps," but I thought it might be
> > helpful to report that this error also occurs on 1.3.54, using an AMD
> > 486-DX2/80 processor.
>
> Also with an Intel P5-100 mounted in a Micronics P54-Hi system board with
> 32 MB and with (at least) the Slackware 3.0 ELF versions of 1.3.53, 1.3.54,
> and 1.3.55. No (noticeable) core dump, but just the floating point
> exception. This post is for informational purposes only in the hope that
> it is of use.

All,

I note that with the latest release of procps from sunsite, this
problem goes away. Anyone having this trouble may want to get a later
version of procps and install it.

Regards,

Paul

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