BTW, what's the origin of this oddity in fs/ioctl.c: #ifdef __sparc__ /* SunOS compatibility item. */ if (O_NONBLOCK != O_NDELAY) flag |= O_NDELAY; #endif It seems rather odd to have architecture-specific code in the VFS, no? Erez. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html