The return value from count_strings can only ever be >= 0, so it should be a size_t not an int. This is in preparation for fixing 598309, but I'm still testing that (rather large) patch. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top