Hello! > This has been this way forever, it is thus an API and it is not > changing. Changing it would break existing programs. End of story. 8) However, imagine, freebsd folks changed this in their release 2.x. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/