Stephen, thanks for your message. The situation is now clear. A bug in glibc which is at version 2.7 on my Debian Lenny system. The patch sounds great. Should I go ahead with testing it and then report ? Regards, Guido -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.