wangjing wrote: may i ask a question? thanks a lot. Not trying to be difficult, but you'll have better luck if you: 1. Use a descriptive subject. Something like "modify sillyrename to put files in /tmp". 2. Run your code through indent(1). It's unreadable as-is. 3. Use an international standard character set, like utf-8. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html