I wondered if anyone has seen any problems running this kernel as a direct result of this new feature?

The author ran it for years with almost no problems so it has been deemed easier to find problems by enabling it generally. If you want to help, keep it on. If you just need to do your job etc. keep away for a few months. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________