NAME

fpsim − report or change the status of floating point simulation

SYNOPSIS

fpsim(flag)

DESCRIPTION

Fpsim is used to enable, disable, or get the status of the kernel floating point simulator.  If flag is 2, the current status of the simulator is returned.  The return value will be either 0, 1, or 2, which respectively means that the simulator is disabled, enabled, or not configured into the current system. 

If flag is 0 or 1 the simulator is respectively disabled or enabled, and the old status of the simulator is returned.  Only the super user is allowed to change the status of the simulator. 

ERRORS

fpsim will fail and the status of the simulator will remain unchanged if:

[EPERM] The effective user ID of the calling process is not the superuser. 

[ENODEV] The simulator is not configured into the current system. 

[EINVAL] A mode other than 0, 1 or 2 was specified. 

SEE ALSO

fpsim(1)

RESTRICTIONS

This call is only temporary, it is intended only for use if the kernel floating point simulator should blow up. Once it has been more thoroughly tested and verified there will no longer be a need to be able to turn it off on a running system.