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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: floating point exception status not inherited by exec
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Date: 28 Mar 90 16:52:36 GMT
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Reply-To: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
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There are two separate things called 'sticky bits'. One is, as you
point out, a file permission UNIX creature, whereas the other,
having no essential connection to UNIX that I know of, is part of
the IEEE floating point standard. This second one is the one I need
to preserve across execs.

Some people have suggested having the child read the floating point
status from the environment. The hope was not to have to modify the
child source.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt