Pavel Machek wrote: > Check it again. There's no race; I check link count before chmod 666. Which creates a race condition, as the link could be created after the check but before the chmod. You can't safely rely upon directory permissions if the directory was created 0777 then chmod'ed down later. It needs to be created with the restrictive permissions from the outset. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>