So is there or is there not any regression (change) in the kernel's behavior? If you are now just talking about strace's own code, then the place for that is strace-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, not any kernel lists. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html