Re: Signal 8

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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
>    i really dont know what this signal is for.

kill -l

8 is SIGFPE on my system -- floating point exception.

For the original poster -- don't use floating point in the kernel. If
you do, you need to modify the context switch code to properly handle
the floating point registers.

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