Hi, Ole and Hartmut raised the point that the attribute interface on files is actaully useless. Formerly, we had a number of attributes on files defined - in the latest version of the spec, only one remaines: 'Blocking'. That atgtribute however does not make much sense, as we have explicit versions for sync and async file I/O. Yes, yes, sync/async and blocking/non-blocking is not exactly the same, but (a) the difference is small for our use cases AFAICS (thats different for streams), and (b) the spec does not define the behaviour for blocking/non-blocking files anyway. So the proposal is to remove that attribute, and the attribute interface on files altogether. Any comments? Thanks, Andre. -- "XML is like violence: if it does not help, use more."