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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Heathfield Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: integer divided by zero Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:01:54 +0100 Organization: Fix this later Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:01:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="98cb7dde7a1aa6fc4fefc67ec63d73d3"; logging-data="3206156"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Cnu0CLOtz30fpTydPufUzDGiFsaZQlxLYEXiw1DQ1iA==" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:LQl3xN8OKDnqma73l5y7GXVJ6r8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2210 On 28/04/2025 11:49, Bonita Montero wrote: > Am 28.04.2025 um 09:54 schrieb Richard Heathfield: > >> Tell it to the marines, because the sailors won't believe you. >> > www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/> > > Then they didn't catch the divide by zero. You wrote: "The platform with the most comfortable handling of division by zeroes is Windows." The report tells us: "The data contained a zero where it shouldn't have, and when the software attempted to divide by zero, a buffer overrun occurred -- crashing the entire network and causing the ship to lose control of its propulsion system." A platform that crashes the network is not "handling" division by zero; it's /mis/handling division by zero. Unix would have core-dumped the program and left everything else up and running, including the Yorktown. -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within