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> > > If you think about it a little, since you can't guarantee delivery
> > > of signals to particular threads anyway, it makes sense that SIGFPE
> > > would not be useful under any circumstances in threaded programs,
> > > no matter how you sliced it.
> > 
> > What Bruce is saying is that it's not possible to deliver the signal *AT
> > ALL*, let alone in threaded programs.  However, he contradicts his own
> > statements in later parts of the same email, hence the confusion.
> 
> I think there is still some confusion about "FPE" occuring vs.
> "SIGFPE" being raised.
> 
> I think he's saying that it's possible, but never useful to deliver
> it.

Amazing how we're all spending our time trying to decipher what Bruce
said. :)


Nate

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