hi all, forgive my stupidity, but what does it mean for cygwin.dll to not be "thread-safe"?? I'm sure that if it really mattered for me i would understand completely, so this is mostly a question of curiosity. thanks a lot. isaac - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".