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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Signal 8 anyone ???
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>From the signal(3) man page  Signal 8 is SIGFPE (floating point
exception).  According to my copy of "The UNIX System" by S.R. Bourne,
this is caused by a floating point overflow, or a zero divisor.

cheers,
Carey Nairn


On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Simon N Atkin wrote:

> Anyone know what Signal 8 is ??
> 
> PROBLEM: rateup died from Signal 8
>  with Exit Value 0 when doing router 'x.x.x.x.x'
>  If this happens all the time,
>  you should probably investigate the cause. :-)
> 
> 
> Any clues ??
> 
> Simon Atkin (simat@enta.net)  ;)
>