Re: divide by 0 problem in "info"? Also: GOMF

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From: Matt Dillon
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1988 18:04

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:Honest!  It really happened to me.  I just innocently typed "info" at my
:CLI.  It gave me a list of mounted disks and their used space, free,
:percent, etc.  Then I got a "Task held" requestor before it got to the
:"Volumes available" list.  When I clicked Cancel, it gurued with a 5:
:divide by zero check.  I can't recreate it because my machine had been up

	This is a bug in RAM: ... sometimes it looses track of the number
blocks free / allocated and it becomes 0.  INFO assumes that disk devices
are at least 1 block big and doesn't check for 0's when it does a divide.
I think the 1.3 INFO checks for 0.

				-Matt

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