> *wink* how do you purpose to somehow get some kind of interactive > input from the user when you do a file-system call? This is a shortcoming in the design of the Hurd (gasp!). I think you mean that it is a shortcoming in the design of things that are not or cannot be interactive, filesystems being one such example. I can see it infront of me: stat() poping up a dialog asking me to do something each time it gets called...