> Somebody please make a call and then let's go on with life. I don't > care much either way anymore. I do hope nobody thinks this is an issue > which can be completely ignored (see, e.g., the bug I pointed to the > other day). Its very hard to do that without knowing what other Unixlike and POSIX OS plan to do and if we'll end up with a third yet again different API to support when it reaches a standards body. We shouldn't be seeing this as a Linux problem, its a BSD problem, an AIX problem, a Solaris problem and an HPUX problem and really wants one solution applying across distributions or it will harm everyone in the long term. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html