One should never hack at the kernal when it is not necessary. Simply make sure that /dev is not writable by anyone but root and the unlinking problem goes away. No one but root should be fiddling with the /dev directory anyway. -- Jon Biggar {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!jonab