Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > How can usespace processes depend on each other? By definition user > task sleeps in place where it holds no locks... it can't block anyone. what was the problem with mysql some months back? I never fully understood it, but wasn't it 2 mysql processes communicating via a pipe or something like that and the "wrong end" frozen first? -- Stefan Seyfried, QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices, SUSE LINUX Nürnberg. "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out."