> There's been a patch that's been ignored in the bug tracker for ages to at least minimise this problem on Windows by treating EACCESS the same as EPERM to handle the case of removable disks. Do you know the ticket number? I vaguely recall it but can't find immediately find it. I know when I looked at it I had cross-platform concerns. -- Principal Security Engineer, Akamai Technologies IM: rsalz at jabber.me Twitter: RichSalz