Here is an update to the patch posted yesterday. The changes are: (1) Don't use inline (for mdbooth). (2) Added a comment to HACKING (for mdbooth). (3) Check for old-style and new-style glibc functions and use whatever is available (for danpb). (4) Removed the old shell_quote function instead of just commenting it out. Can anyone decode from Uli's message[1] whether these new functions are going to be added to POSIX 2008? It's not very clear to me. Rich. [1] http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.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