The fix I posted in December does not make the write block, it permits partial writes on non-blocking stream sockets. The complaint that this makes pipes non-atomic is unjustified, because pipes in 4.2BSD are already non-atomic. -- Brian Thomson, CSRG Univ. of Toronto {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,utzoo}!utcsrgv!uthub!thomson