Hello guys, I'm new to this mailing list, so I'd like to introduce myself. I'm working with Calvin Austin at Sun in the Java support for Linux. I went through the mailing list archive and didn't find anything for the following, so just in case: There is a workaround in jdk1.3.1-FCS on i386 for a thread/socket problem on Linux. The bug is listed at http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4344135.html In short; On Linux platforms, a thread that is waiting on an I/O operation will not wake up if a file involved in the I/O operation is closed. This problem is being tracked as bug 4344135. To avoid this problem, set the J2SE_PREEMPTCLOSE environment variable to 1. Hope this helps and, as always, feedback are welcome. Ludo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]