Re: signal(SIGFPE,SIG_IGN), possible solution?

Alan Clucas (orb@s13r3.wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 01:18:43 +0100 (BST)


> > > Linus (who has obviously gotten a bit frazzled from working so hard
> > > on the kernel lately) sees fit to rant:
> >
> > guilty as charged..
> >
> > For somebody else it may not be. And the kernel has to assume the worst,
> > for the simple reason that it can't _tell_ what the program wants. I have
> > yet to add the ESP-driver to the kernel to read the mind of the user..
> >
>
>
> Oh, please, please, give this new, delightful driver your highest
> priority. I've needed this feature for years!!!!

This, combined with /dev/replicator (from 1.3.87) could make Linux the
first O/S able to clone people :)

Alan