Gordon McMillan writes: > It's in the other O'Reilly POSIX book, p 348 of POSIX.4. Ah, I don't have that either. I thought POSIX.4 was real-time stuff. (If anyone wants to send a copy along, I'd be glad to consider adding reasonable interfaces for Python. ;) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives