I regularly call getDirectoryContents on a certain directory looking for changes, when I 'lsof' my process (list open files) it has an absurd number of open descriptors to said directory open. I didn't see an obvious bug in getDirectoryContents, does anyone know what is going on? Also, did the fixes for sockets not getting properly closed all the time make it into 6.00? I am trying to track down some out of descriptor problems. thanks. John -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - john@foo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------