Hi Rob, This is a bug in Emacs 20.3. I'll forward you in a separate mail an email by Wolfram Gloger. You might want to check bug-gnu-emacs and bug-glibc for some discussion of this. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de