A note: Don't use yaffs_ObjDump till the object is built (enabling NCBDEBUG in yaffs_guts is an example). Things like using strlen on a symlink alias to get its filesize doesn't like a null pointer. Might be worthwhile adding a NULL check here Charles? Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is hosted by Toby Churchill open software (www.toby-churchill.org). If mailing list membership is no longer wanted you can remove yourself from the list by sending an email to yaffs-request@toby-churchill.org with the text "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) as the subject.