On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:47:04AM -0700, Mike McDonald wrote: > > Not knowing anything about the glibc architecture, I have a dumb > question: why is 'ls' doing anything at all with pthreads? You must be using a broken Linux. /bin/ls in my RedHat 7.1/mips doesn't use pthreads. H.J.