Another side effect of this is kernel_thread doesn't work if the parent process is 32 bit e.g. bash on SLES8. D.J. Barrow Linux Kernel Developer dj at de.ibm.com,barrow_dj at yahoo.com Phone:0049-7031-16-2943 ** Sent via the linuxppc64-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/