Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Drats. OK, well an alternative which occured to me was that I could > make a small POSIX::Base (or something) XS module for -base which > provided setlocale, LC_MESSAGES, tmpnam and whatever else was required. Isn't POSIX autoloaded? So couldn't you move most of auto/POSIX/*.al out of perl-base? > An alternative for tmpnam would also be to call tempfile(1). Eeew. -- see shy jo