On Sun, 27 May 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:

> It's fine that it dumped core.  It's just confusing that the way that it
> says ``this is an obsolete, or a non-existant, system call'' is to divide
> by 0.  Printing something through the system log to the console or
> xconsole and dumping core w/o pretending to do arithmetic would have been
> less confusing.  IMHO.  If it needs to use a signal for this, FPE would
> not be my choice.  (^&

Probably what happened is, execution jumped to a random, garbage
address. Given that, anything goes. If you want it do something
sensible, compile in COMPAT_14 friends. If you put anything else in
the syscall table, it's going to take up just as much room, defeating
the purpose of taking out COMPAT_14 &c in the first place.


Frederick