On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:50:46AM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote: > Sounds strange to me... but I'm forwarding it here in case you > haven't seen it yet. Looking at it, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Most modules which perform user or group lookups use the non-threaded functions (getpwnam(), getgrnam(), etc.), which have to be screwing with applications one way or another. I'd suggest reworking most of them to use getpwnam_r and friends, which appear to be standardized at least in SUSv2. Comments? I can start throwing together a jumbo patch for the current tree at Sourceforge that does this. Nalin